A US senator demands to remove TikTok from Google and Apple: How will the absence of TikTok in the USA affect the activity of affiliates? 🤔

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The attempt to push TikTok out of the American market continues actively: since January of this year, American legislators have called for stricter measures to protect user data and a nationwide ban on the TikTok app.

A month later, TikTok received another blow - the discussion about banning the popular TikTok app resumed in the US. Several legislators appealed to Apple and Google to remove the app from their stores.

Among the initiators of this idea were Senator Josh Hawley and US House of Representatives member Michael Bennet. They called on their colleagues and the Biden administration to impose stricter restrictions on data collection or a nationwide ban on TikTok, citing risks to the national security of the United States.

The reason for concern for American legislators is that TikTok is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, which may transfer user data to the Chinese government.

ByteDance has been in talks with the US federal government for over three years regarding the continued operation of TikTok in the country.

Last year, TikTok CEO Zhang Yiming presented a plan to move all data from Virginia and Singapore to servers owned by Oracle, which would be controlled by
 
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