The US' Berman amendments, passed during the Cold War to protect the free flow of content between the US and hostile countries, may complicate a TikTok ban
One can think of many reasons to worry about TikTok … Rose Horowitch / NBC News : TikTok CEO to testify before Congress in March amid app security questions CNBC : Europe's crackdown on Big Tech omitted TikTok — but now that's set to change Bloomberg : Biden Has Never Been Under More Pressure From Congress to Ban TikTok TechNode : US House panel to vote next month on TikTok ban Tweets: Luther Lowe / @lutherlowe : At least 50% of TikTok's headwinds in D.C. right now are based on Google/Apple/Facebook/Amazon + their front groups milking geopolitical tension with China to sidestep regulatory scrutiny that would otherwise be directed at them. https://twitter.com/... Stephen Roach / @sroach_econ : Can a free society restrict social discourse under the guise of national security — especially if there is no credible evidence of compromised data? https://www.wsj.com/... Emily Benson / @bensonel : The intersection of the Berman Amendment and new rules for governing digital trade deserves far more attention. Can we govern the outflow of data? What kind of data = speech? Should we distinguish between commercial and personal data? If so, where do we draw the line? https://twitter.com/... Martijn Rasser / @martijnrasser : WSJ highlights an obscure hurdle in dealing with #TikTok: the Berman amendments. @CostelloJK, @megan_lamberth, and I wrote about the need to update the amendment for current context in our July 2021 report on operationalizing a US national tech strategy. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/...