Coalition calls for Labor to follow Biden on TikTok as US closes in on ban
The opposition has criticised the government's reluctance to follow the Biden administration and legislate a ban on TikTok, after the social media giant failed to overturn the law in a US appeals court.
The Coalition has criticised Labor’s reluctance to follow the Biden administration’s bid to force ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban, after a US appeals court rejected the company’s efforts to overturn the law.
TikTok’s bid to reverse a bill signed into law by United States President Joe Biden in April failed in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals over the weekend, setting the stage for a blanket US ban on the short-form video-sharing app from 19 January next year.
The law was introduced following mounting national security concerns in the US and other democracies over whether TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, could be compelled to share the data of US citizens with Chinese authorities.
The opposition’s home affairs spokesman James Paterson said that decision should serve as a “wake-up call” for the Albanese government and argued Labor should have introduced legislation accounting for the ban before parliament rose for the year.
