‘New type of cold war’, says Pedro Doria about project that could end TikTok in the USA | Pedro Doria

First Conversation – Digital Life – Pedro Doria CBN

The United States Senate approved a bill that forces TikTok to cut ties with ByteDance, its Chinese parent company. Text went on to be sanctioned by President Biden. On Saturday, the bill had already been approved by the Chamber of Deputies. If the parent company does not sell its operations in the USA, the App will no longer be able to operate in the country.

Pedro Doria explains that ByteDance has 270 days to find a buyer, but the problem is that the Chinese have a law that does not authorize exporting algorithms.

The secret of TikTok, what makes TikTok, is not the app’s pretty face, it’s the face that, as an algorithm, distributes short videos to everyone. Without the algorithm, TikTok is probably worthless.

Even if Biden sanctions the project, the Chinese company will still be able to go to court. The First Amendment to the American Constitution guarantees that the state cannot legislate to in any way restrict people’s freedom of expression. For Doria, the amendment could be ByteDance’s legal argument to go to Federal Court, arguing that Congress has just restricted people’s freedom of expression.

Pedro Doria also remembers that other social networks were also banned by the Chinese in their territory.

It is a dispute, a new type of cold war that is taking place between these two countries. The Chinese, before we talk about just these Americans, censors and everything else, let’s not forget that there is no X, Twitter in China, there is no Facebook, Instagram in China, there is no WhatsApp in China, I mean, What the Americans are doing now with TikTok, the Chinese have been doing with American social platform companies for a long time. In addition to reciprocity.