The demonized TikTok fell into the political vortex again and disappeared from the United States within a year?

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TikTokThe expansion in the United States is undoubtedly successful. It seems that it has occupied the mobile phones of American teenagers overnight.

TikTok is even affecting our eating habits, 20211.People share grilled feta on TikTokspaghetti(Baked feta pasta) related videos, set off a burst ofBaked feta pastaFeta sales surged 2% in February of that year (Source: CNN)
A 'black hole' for attention and money
TikTok has an all-encompassing range of users, and it seems difficult for users attracted by it to "escape", get stuck in it, and spend a lot of time on this app every day.
2021Years.TikTokhas more website visits than Google, and U.S. users watch more hours thanYouTube.FacebookIt took nearly nine years to reach the number of users10Billion,TikTokIt only took five years.

Not only did TikTok give Adlia Wise (Adrianna Wise's bakery brought popularity, and she also shared her entrepreneurial experience with people of color in the community,Some influencers who make a living on TikTok say they can't imagine life without it (Source: CNN)
Huge commercial value attractsBusinesses and brands spend billions of dollars advertising on this platform.
Before the mid-term elections, a considerable number of American politicians carried out campaign canvassing activities on TikTok, withTraditional news organizations such as the 176-year-old Associated Press have also recently joined TikTok to reach new audiences.
TikTok's ambitions don't stop there. A spate of recent job postings suggests the company is building its own warehouse network in the United States in an attempt to unsettle Amazon's e-commerce empire.
"Spiritual opiates" for teenagers
According to a recent report by the US NGO Center to Combat Digital Hate (CCDH),TikTok pushes harmful content about eating disorders, self-harm, sexual assault to teens every 39 seconds.
American technology ethicist Tristan Harris said in a recent interview with CBS's flagship program "60 Minutes": "Recognizing that its technology is affecting children's development, ByteDance has made an entertaining and educational version of Douyin in China, while promoting a harmful opium version to the rest of the world."

Tristan Harris said in an interview that China's Douyin pushes content about science experiments, museum exhibitions and patriotic education to teenagers, and limits viewing time to 40 minutes a day (Image source: YouTube)
TikTok's eventful year
Just in the past six months,TikTokAnd ByteDance, accused of lying about Chinese employees' access to U.S. user data, using a news app to promote the spread of pro-China content overseas, and allowing Chinese state-run media accounts to go uncensored and critical of U.S. politics process.

Forbes also reportedA team at ByteDance headquarters plans to use TikTok to track the location of specific U.S. users(Image source: Forbes)
The House of Representatives and 19 state governments have banned the app from government devices.Another bill awaiting President Joe Biden's signature would ban the use of TikTok on all federal government devices.
In early December, with Republican Senator Marco Rubio(Marco Rubio) The three leading congressmen jointly proposed a bill to ban TikTok from operating in the United States.
In addition, according to the "Wall Street Journal" report, out of concerns about national security and privacy protection issues of its Chinese parent company ByteDance,Pentagon and Justice Department officials are also pushing the government to force TikTok to sell its U.S. operations. 
Withdraw from the United States within a year?
Wall Street investment firm Evercore ISI wrote in a recent analysis report that it is unclear how likely it is to sell TikTok because ByteDance and the Chinese government may oppose it.
In fact, as early as when Trump suppressed TikTok, the Chinese government introduced new regulations restricting technology exports.The TikTok algorithm was named, which means that without the consent of the Chinese government, the saleTikTok has 0 odds.

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That's why some experts believe a ban is the only option left.David Grancy, professor at the Institute of World PoliticsDavid Glancy)Said thatHe sees a ban as inevitable within the next six months to a year.
But to ban TikTok entirely, the government needs to point out the specific laws that TikTok violates.The Indian government banned TikTok for violating a law following a geopolitical dispute between India and China.
However, no such law exists in the United States.
A Biden administration in a dilemma
TikTok is very popular among young voters who lean toward the Democratic Party. The Biden administration may have to walk a tightrope between being tough on China and not offending young voters.

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The current debate in the U.S. government is not about whether TikTok should be banned completely. Democratic officials generally believe that a complete ban will do more harm than good, but they also agreed that some changes were needed to address existing privacy and security concerns.
stricter control
Clearly, if TikTok wants to continue operating in the US, it has to change the way it operates. 
Although in June 2022, TikTok has completed migrating the data information of American users to Oracle's servers, and ByteDanceClaiming not to have access to the data doesn't solve everything.

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It is foreseeable that in addition to being banned from military and government equipment, all equipment of corporate employees engaged in critical infrastructure such as banking, energy, healthcare, and transportation will be banned from using TikTok.
The analyst said,A compromise could be stricter regulation of how TikTok shares and stores data in the United States.
参考资料
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/16/tech/tiktok-ban-users/index.html
https://healthnews.com/news/tiktok-pushes-harmful-content-to-teens-every-39-seconds/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/10/20/tiktok-bytedance-surveillance-american-user-data/?sh=66185bc46c2d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j0xzuh-6rY
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