Posted on 05 March 2020
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) has led a crusade against the Chinese-owned video platform TikTok, and now he has reportedly proposed legislation to ban federal workers from using it on their government-issued devices. Hawley dropped the hammer on TikTok after a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on big tech’s connections to China, Reuters reported. After condemning the platform for “scooping up immense amounts of data” and “sharing it with Beijing” as they are “required to” do, Hawley suggested it is a “no-brainer” to ban “federal...