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TikTok-Verbot: Warum es plötzlich ganz schnell gehen könnte

Einen Monat lang war die Debatte um ein mögliches TikTok-Verbot aus den Schlagzeilen verschwunden. Bis jetzt.

TikTok-Verbot: Warum es plötzlich ganz schnell gehen könnte
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Was war

Im März schrieben wir (SMWB):

Die USA wollen ByteDance mal wieder zwingen, TikTok zu verkaufen. Klingt nach „Und täglich grüßt das Murmeltier“, doch dieses Mal könnte die Drohung wahr werden.

Die Kurzfassung der damaligen Situation:

Es folgten einige turbulente Tage, dann ebbte die Aufregung ab. TikTok schien davongekommen zu sein – mal wieder. Vergangene Woche bilanzierte Casey Newton (Platformer):

Taken together, these do not seem to me like the actions of a company that believes its apps are about to be banned in the United States and elsewhere. Rather, it seems like a bet that any effort to force the divestiture of TikTok won’t be able to clear both houses of Congress. And as the weeks go on, the odds on that bet are looking increasingly good.

Doch wer die TikTok-Diskussionen in den vergangenen Jahren verfolgt hat, sollte eines gelernt haben: Dieses Thema ist wie das Wetter im April, launisch und unstet. Am blauen Frühlingshimmel können sich jederzeit dunkle Wolken zusammenziehen. Genau das ist jetzt geschehen.

Was ist

The move “to package TikTok is definitely unusual, but it could succeed,” said Paul Gallant, a policy analyst for the financial services firm TD Cowen. He added that “it’s a bit of brinkmanship” to try to force an up-or-down vote without further negotiation with the Senate.
The House must pass the package this week and the Senate should quickly follow. I will sign this into law immediately to send a message to the world: we stand with our friends, and we won’t let Iran or Russia succeed.

Wie TikTok reagiert

It is unfortunate that the House of Representatives is using the cover of important foreign and humanitarian assistance to once again jam through a ban bill.
The Chinese parent of TikTok has kept a safe distance from the troubles facing its short video app in the US, leaving the response to the local team and Singaporean CEO Chew Shou Zi as they face a possible legal battle against a forced sale or a ban, according to people briefed on the matter.
The embassy downplayed the national security concerns with TikTok in both meetings, the two staffers said, and sought to align the app with American interests: In one meeting, the embassy said a ban on TikTok would harm U.S. investors who hold some ownership in ByteDance. In the other, the embassy emphasized that not all ByteDance board members were Chinese nationals.
ByteDance's TikTok has been given 24 hours to provide a risk assessment on its new app TikTok Lite launched this month in France and Spain because of concerns about its potential impact on children and users' mental health, the European Commission said on Wednesday.
Many of those ex-workers, four of whom were employed as recently as last year, say at least some of TikTok’s operations were intertwined with its parent during their tenures, and that the company’s independence from China was largely cosmetic. (…) The allegations of close ties, made in interviews between August and April, raise more questions about the relationship between TikTok and ByteDance. They also create more fodder for critics who fear the Chinese government could use TikTok as a sort of Trojan horse to spy on Americans by sifting through the huge amounts of digital data that it collects.