The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday along party lines to give President Joe Biden the power to ban TikTok, in what would be the most far-reaching U.S. restriction on any social media app.
支持推动这一法案的美国共和党议员麦考尔则声称:“TikTok危害美国国家安全,是时候采取行动。”
“TikTok is a national security threat ... It is time to act,” said Representative Michael McCaul, the Republican chair of the committee who sponsored the bill.
此外,麦考尔还继续大放厥词,渲染“中国威胁论“,毫无根据的声称TikTok是“手机里的间谍气球”(a spy balloon into their phone)。
"The US has been over-stretching the concept of national security and abusing state power to suppress foreign companies. We are firmly against that. The US should respect the principles of market economy and fair competition, stop suppressing the companies and provide an open, fair and non-discriminatory environment for foreign companies in the US."
“We have been clear about our concerns about TikTok, apps like TikTok — and, certainly, our concerns with countries, including China, as they seek to leverage digital technologies and Americans’ — and Americans’ data in ways that can present harm and — and risk to our national security, clearly.”
让-皮埃尔还表示,拜登对此采取了行动,希望美国议会可以通过相关法案。
对于这样的回答,有记者追问:总统认为抖音危害国家安全吗?
“Does the President believe TikTok is a threat to national security?”
“I guess what I’m trying to understand is: You know, has the President not issued a federal ban on TikTok on all devices because he does not think it’s a threat to national security or because he does not have a legal mechanism to do so?”
“I’m not going to get into the specifics on what he has legally to do so or to not do so. What I’m saying — and we’ve been very clear that TikTok, you know, poses a problem and an issue. And so, we have concerns about that as it relates to Americans’ data — collecting Americans’ data and the potential national security risk. And we’ve been very, very clear on that.”
Democrats are rolling out the red carpet for social media influencers: a free trip to D.C., a private chat with Obama and an hour in the Oval Office with Biden. TikTok stars with a combined following of more than 67 million were invited to The White House.
“But one thing that we do believe in is meeting the American people where they are. And the reality is some — many of them — millions of them are — are on this app.”
也许中国外交部发言人毛宁对于相关事件的表态,可以解答这名记者的问题。
“美国作为世界头号大国,竟然如此惧怕一款青年人喜爱的应用软件,未免太不自信了。”
“How unsure of itself can the world’s top superpower be to fear a young people’s favorite app like that? ”
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