Australian Opposition Backs US Approach on TikTok

Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has expressed support for banning TikTok in Australia, in light of President Joe Biden signing legislation requiring TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to divest its ownership of TikTok in the United States. Ms. Ley indicated the Opposition would support looking closely at the U.S. approach. “TikTok is a Chinese company of course, and it is vulnerable therefore to influences from the Chinese Communist Party,” Ms. Ley said. “I remember that they acknowledged a couple of years ago that they actually stored Australian data on their servers somewhere. So it’s inappropriate for TikTok to have the reach and access that it does. We would support measures and look closely at what the U.S. has done....