TOPIC: TIKTOK " T B O a P n I

The fact that TikTok was c1reated and is still owned by a Chinese company has led to accusations that the CCP essentially controls the technology, and could use the app for surveillance of American citizens and manipulation of information. [...] The statutory authority that the Trump and Biden Commerce Departments have relied upon to establish national security review of ICTS infrastructure is the same IEEPA authority that was rejected by the courts as a grounds for banning TikTok, due to the information and communications exemptions in the legislation. [...] The core mandate in Section 3 of the bill requires the executive branch to prohibit or otherwise “mitigate” any transaction or activity in information and communications technologies by companies controlled by a “foreign adversary” if the commerce secretary determines that such a transaction poses any risk to U. [...] Section 11 of the bill grants the president a wide range of civil and criminal options to enforce the mitigation of national security risks. [...] The extremely broad scope of the national security mandates in the bill also lend themselves toward maximal use of the powers granted to the federal government.