FCC commissioner urges DOJ to investigate Apple and TikTok

TL;DR

The FCC's Brendan Carr is continuing to press for TikTok to be removed from the App Store, and his latest tactic is writing to the Department of Justice to try to inspire antitrust actions.Carr, the Federal Communications Commission's top-ranking Republican commissioner, has previously pressed Apple and Google to ban TikTok.Writing to Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai in June 2022, he called the video service a wolf in "sheep's clothing."Consequently, argues Carr, the DOJ's Antitrust Division should take into account TikTok, "to the extent that it assesses the reasonableness of Apple's and Google's anticompetitive actions."He believes that it's impossible to be confident that data is "not finding its way back into the hands of the [Chinese Communist Party].""

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