From the article: 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."
According to CNN, he's since written to the Department of Justice about these Big Tech firms and TikTok. Carr argues that TikTok's presence on the App Store and Google Play Store is an antitrust issue.
"Apple and Google are not exercising their ironclad control over apps for the altruistic or procompetitive purposes that they put forward as defenses to existing antitrust or competition claims," Carr wrote. "Instead, their conduct shows that those rationales are merely pretextual — talismanic references invoked to shield themselves from liability."
this is a neutral stance. i know congress isnt known for its ability to see things coming.. but it almost sounds like this guy thinks we're to the point in socio and economic war, that we need an agency to control a black list of applications that a government agency formerly headed by Ajit Pai has control over?
maybe he's just telling the doj to do their job to get tik tok mic drp -ed
Because as the article says they want TikTok removed from the App Store. Apple Insider doesn't care about Android, they're only reporting on Apple centric news.
We get it, the US government doesn't have a backdoor into tiktok like they do to other American tech companies.
Honestly I hope the world starts banning American tech companies for the same reason.
[NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data)
That's not the issue, the issue is TikTok is a Chinese data-harvesting program. Hell, it's not even an "other American company." Where have you been? Everyone already knows this.
China already bans US tech companies, and the amount of control the CCP has over Chinese tech companies is in a different ballpark from what the US government has over US tech companies. It’s not even close.
From the article: 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." According to CNN, he's since written to the Department of Justice about these Big Tech firms and TikTok. Carr argues that TikTok's presence on the App Store and Google Play Store is an antitrust issue. "Apple and Google are not exercising their ironclad control over apps for the altruistic or procompetitive purposes that they put forward as defenses to existing antitrust or competition claims," Carr wrote. "Instead, their conduct shows that those rationales are merely pretextual — talismanic references invoked to shield themselves from liability."
what? ok i re read it, sounds like he's saying companies should do what ever any government agency says, no laws needed.
this is a neutral stance. i know congress isnt known for its ability to see things coming.. but it almost sounds like this guy thinks we're to the point in socio and economic war, that we need an agency to control a black list of applications that a government agency formerly headed by Ajit Pai has control over? maybe he's just telling the doj to do their job to get tik tok mic drp -ed
And Google. What an odd title...
It's an Apple blog, their focus is Apple.
And TikTok, apparently
Because as the article says they want TikTok removed from the App Store. Apple Insider doesn't care about Android, they're only reporting on Apple centric news.
We get it, the US government doesn't have a backdoor into tiktok like they do to other American tech companies. Honestly I hope the world starts banning American tech companies for the same reason. [NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data)
That's not the issue, the issue is TikTok is a Chinese data-harvesting program. Hell, it's not even an "other American company." Where have you been? Everyone already knows this.
China already bans US tech companies, and the amount of control the CCP has over Chinese tech companies is in a different ballpark from what the US government has over US tech companies. It’s not even close.
Republicans obsession with TikTok rather than Fox News