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Kenneth Rogerson: Why are state governments starting to ban TikTok?
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Bob: There certainly is a lot of discussion about TikTok lately, but what is the actual concern for legislators at the federal and state level about TikTok and government devices? The letter that these two state legislators sent to the governor mentioned China specifically as a threat to our security and because of the kind of government that they have and, and the relationship between ByteDance, which owns TikTok, and the Chinese government. Bob: So TikTok is ragingly popular, particularly with young people, and there’s been a lot of stated public concerns that the Chinese government could use ByteDance… the data that TikTok collects in order to build this massive surveillance database of US citizens.