TikTok says it will stop philanthropy its social video app in Hong Kong ensuing the region exiled a new nationwide security law granting expanded presidency to the mainland Chinese government. "In moonlit of contempo events, we've incontrovertible to stop operations of the TikTok app in Hong Kong," a spokesperson tells Axios.
Global tech companies operating in Hong Kong have panegyric inquiringness that the new law could gravity them to comply with China's callous censorship standards and possibly accelerate user data to the mainland. Google, Facebook, and Twitter have already stopped processing requests for user data from the Hong Kong government.
TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a major Chinese internet company. But it has been at pains to differentiate the Western app from its parentage and Douyin, the Chinese version of the platform. While TikTok has long argued that it never shares data with the Chinese government, the new Hong Kong law would okey-dokey have undermined the company's keening if it long to operate in the region.
TikTok continues to grimace scrutiny in the US and beyond. Tonight, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox that the government is "certainly attractive at" banning TikTok and various supplemental Chinese social media apps. TikTok was moreover banned in India meanest week aslope dozens of supplemental Chinese apps between increased tensions between the countries.
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