Rubio wants Biden to block TikTok after Chinese govt stake in subsidiary of parent company

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Republican Senator Marco Rubio urged President Joe Biden on Tuesday to block short-form video app TikTok in the United States after China took an ownership stake in a key subsidiary of ByteDance, the Beijing-based parent company of TikTok.

The Biden administration in June withdrew a series of Trump-era executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok.

The Commerce Department is conducting a Biden-ordered review of security concerns posed by those apps and others. It did not respond to a request for comment. It is held by WangTouZhongWen Technology, which is owned by three Chinese state entities including a fund backed by the country's main internet watchdog, the Cyberspace Administration of China , government shareholder data shows.

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Reuters=Anti-China Media, just lable it.

Last time you tried to block TikTok U.S. people just downloaded the actual Chinese version Douyin instead.

He wants to block TikTok because of capitalism?

Rubio can

Clown!😂😂😂😂

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