{"id":7738,"date":"2025-03-27T20:18:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/moolenaar-cammack-double-down-on-opposition-to-tiktok-oracle-plan\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T20:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:18:42","slug":"moolenaar-cammack-double-down-on-opposition-to-tiktok-oracle-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/moolenaar-cammack-double-down-on-opposition-to-tiktok-oracle-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Moolenaar, Cammack double down on opposition to TikTok-Oracle plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two Republican lawmakers, including the chair of the House China committee, stepped up their attacks Thursday against a potential White House deal<\/a> to sell TikTok to Oracle that preserves a role for its Beijing-based owner.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m here to make one thing clear: any deal that allows ByteDance to maintain control of TikTok is a grave threat to our security and a violation of U.S. law,\u201d House Select China Committee Chair\u00a0John Moolenaar<\/a> (R-Mich.) said, repeating the hard line he drew against the Oracle plan in an earlier op-ed<\/a>. \u201cByteDance is trying to hold onto TikTok by pushing a licensing deal and maintaining control over its algorithm and staff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. Kat Cammack<\/a> (R-Fla.) stressed \u201cthere has to be an absolute pure divestiture\u201d and broke down what a compliant alternative would look like: \u201cFor me, it’s really important the source code, algorithm and data and servers are all completely separated from mainland China, from ByteDance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moolenaar and Cammack were speaking at an event hosted by the TikTok Coalition<\/a>, founded by former lobbyist and CEO of Iggy Ventures Rick Lane<\/a>. About 20 people attended the event, which convened in a House meeting room.<\/p>\n

TikTok did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

The White House is seriously discussing<\/a> the deal and has accelerated talks with Oracle ahead of President Donald Trump\u2019s April 5 deadline for a sale, even as China hawks and legal experts say<\/a> it would violate the law Congress passed last spring to force TikTok\u2019s sale or ban in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers said Thursday they expect that latest tactic by TikTok to backfire, pointing to it as evidence of the app\u2019s hold over its users \u2014 a would-be asset to a foreign rival like China.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re running a massive PR campaign across the U.S. to sway public opinion and distract from the core issue: ongoing Chinese control of the app,\u201d Moolenaar said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two Republican lawmakers, including the chair of the House China committee, stepped up their attacks Thursday against a potential White House deal to sell TikTok to Oracle that preserves a role for its Beijing-based owner. \u201cI\u2019m here to make one thing clear: any deal that allows ByteDance to maintain control of TikTok is a grave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}