Why TikTok’s future has never been so cloudy

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A movement to ban the app that began with Republican state governors quickly spread to Congress, and now TikTok is forbidden from being installed on devices owned by the federal government.Jamf Holding Corp., which sells software to organizations to enable filtering and security measures on iPhones and other Apple devices, said its government customers have increasingly blocked access to TikTok since the middle of this year.About 65% of attempted connections to TikTok have been blocked this month on devices managed by Jamf’s public sector customers worldwide, including school districts and various other agencies, up from 10% of connections being blocked in June, the company said.Biden is proving to be quite hawkish on Chinese tech Trump tried and failed to forcibly divest ByteDance of TikTok and hand it to one of his top fundraisers, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.Biden has taken a less thuggish approach to his China dealings, but in the end is proving to be quite hawkish on Chinese tech: he has worked to prevent China from developing advanced chips, plans to limit US investments in Chinese tech, and will restrict the ability of Chinese apps to collect data about Americans."

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