Montana has become the first state to ban TikTok although it isn't clear how Apple and Google will be able to make the legislation work.
Montana Governor Greg Gianforte finally affixed his signature to the bill that bans short-form video app TikTok in Montana as per. The legislation will go into effect in January 2024 and will prevent private citizens from using the app. The bill was created due to fears that TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, is accessing personal data belonging to U.S. TikTok users.
, Yintao"Roger" Yu. In his suit, Yu, who was fired in 2018, says that the Chinese Communist Party had a"backdoor channel" inside the company that gave it"supreme access" to all data generated by the TikTok app. Yu also alleges that TikTok was used to spread CCP propaganda and that certain metrics of TikTok were faked in order to make it appear that there were more users than there really were at the time.
Apple and Google's app storefronts would have to prevent users in Montana from seeing a listing for TikTokand Google appear to be on the hot seat in Montana. Every time that someone in the state is offered the ability to open or install the app, whether through the App Store, Google Play Store, or from TikTok itself, the"entity" offering this access to TikTok will be fined $10,000 per day. Individual TikTok users will not be fined.
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