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TikTok users posting cat videos do not threaten UK national security, minister

Darren Jones defends decision to allow app to continue running in UK as it stops working in US ahead of national ban

The last Conservative government took the same position because there’s sensitive information on those devices, but for consumers who want to post videos of their cats or dancing, that doesn’t seem like a national security threat to me.” The government’s position contrasts with that taken in the US, where TikTok stopped working this weekend ahead of a law that would force its parent company, ByteDance, either to sell it to a non-Chinese owner or shut it down entirely. Trump proposed a TikTok ban in 2020 but has recently promised to work with the company to find a political solution to the standoff, having found a large audience on the platform during the 2024 election campaign.

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