Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is rebuffing the calls and says TikTok is a way for Australians to communicate.
Already a subscriber?The Coalition has all but demanded that the government follow the United States’ lower house and tell TikTok’s Chinese parent company to sell the app or face a ban.A rally organised by Republican politicians in Washington last year calling for a TikTok ban., opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson said the country could not afford to be left behind after the US House of Representatives approved an anti-TikTok bill.
The prime minister said the government was taking advice from security agencies but rejected calls for a ban on TikTok. “We have no plans to do that. I think you’ve got to be pretty cautious,” he said on radio station WSFM. “This legislation if signed into law will lead to a ban on TikTok in the United States,” said TikTok’s chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, in a video on the app. “This bill gives more power to a handful of social media companies and take billions of dollars out of the pockets of creators and small businesses. It will put more than 300,000 American jobs at risk.”
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