According to the survey, only 32 percent of respondents are against the ban on the social network TikTok, the remaining 18% of respondents have no opinion on this issue, the Reuters agency cited the results of the survey.
US lawmakers have expressed concern that TikTok could provide US users’ data to the Chinese government. The fate of the platform, which is used by approximately 170 million Americans, has subsequently become a major issue in Washington.
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It culminated at the end of last month with the passage of a law that effectively allows TikTok to be banned in the US. The Americans are now pressuring the Chinese company ByteDance to sell off TikTok. He has until January next year. However, the management of the company refuses this.
If the representatives of this Chinese giant really did not do so, the application databases operated by Apple or Google would not be able to provide these applications in the US.
Influencing Americans
A majority of Americans (58%) agree with the government’s claim that the Chinese government is using TikTok to “influence American public opinion.” Only 13 percent of respondents disagreed with this statement.
In addition, roughly 46 percent of Americans are concerned that China is “using TikTok to track ordinary users.”
The new law allows the US government to ban other digital services with foreign owners at the same time. It was approved together with the aid package for Ukraine. Thanks to it, the US president will get the opportunity to adopt extensive sanctions against Iran and Russian officials, or allow the government to use frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine.
Stop sign also in the Czech Republic
The use of the TikTok application on government devices has already been decided to be banned by all countries of the Five Eyes alliance, which brings together the intelligence agencies of the USA, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. A similar step was announced by Belgium, France and the European Commission. The ban only applies to officials, not all users.
“I proceeded to issue the warning based on a comprehensive analysis of information about the TikTok application, which we obtained both from public sources and from our allies,” said NÚKIB director Lukáš Kintr.
“The amount of data collected and its handling, combined with the legal environment in China and the growing number of users in the Czech Republic, give us no choice but to label TikTok as a security threat,” he added.
The warning also applies to the general public. “The warning does not differentiate between public and private sector users. What is crucial for me is whether a threat to a specific system could have a negative impact on the functioning of the Czech Republic and the safety of each of us,” added Kintr.
How TikTok works
TikTok is most popular especially among teenagers, who, according to some statistics, already use it more often than Facebook. Among the users of this Chinese social network, we can also find older generations.
The principle of this online service is very simple, it is based on very short videos that are played one after the other. It’s the same as if you were viewing posts on Facebook and the screen scrolled itself to more and more posts.
But instead of text, they play prime videos on TikTok, short recordings with a length of three to 60 seconds. And just such a short duration seems to be a recipe for success, because in the US the Chinese social network has even surpassed Snapchat and Instagram.
At first it was possible to record videos of only 15 seconds, later it was possible to publish up to three-minute clips. Video content can now be up to ten minutes long.
Although short videos are still popular, many users are able to spend several hours a day on TikTok.
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