Trump FCC Commissioner Calls For Banning TikTok

Axios reports:

The Council on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) should take action to ban TikTok, Brendan Carr, one of five commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission, told Axios in an interview.

It’s the strongest language Carr has used to date to urge action on TikTok. With more than 200 million downloads in the U.S. alone, the popular app is becoming a form of critical information infrastructure — making the app’s ownership by a Chinese parent company a target of growing national security concern.

The FCC has no authority to regulate TikTok directly, but Congress previously acted after Carr voiced concerns about Chinese telecom companies, including Huawei.

Read the full article. Carr, a 2017 Trump nominee, also opposes net neutrality and wants to reforms protections for social media platforms. More recently, he opposed efforts to block Elon Musk from acquiring Twitter.