Why is TikTok banned? What's behind the law that shuttered the …
5 days ago · The clock is ticking for TikTok and its 170 million American users 02:01. ... TikTok began an initiative known as "Project Texas" to safeguard American users' data on servers in the U.S. and ease ...
How Texas leaders have supported the end of TikTok in recent …
4 days ago · Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has also been a hard-fisted critic of the app, suing TikTok several times in recent years. Most recently, Paxton sued TikTok in early January for “deceptively ...
Here's What Texas Politicians Have Said About TikTok
Jan 16, 2025 · Texas Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton. Another harsh critic of the app, Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton has sued TikTok several times. His latest suit holds the company liable for exposing minors to explicit ...
North Texas content creators worry — is time up for TikTok?
Jan 15, 2025 · NORTH TEXAS — Time's nearly up for TikTok in the United States, and North Texas content creators and small businesses are worried about the potential impact on their livelihoods. Unless the...
What a TikTok famous Texas ranch family thinks of the …
5 days ago · Texas ranchers who found a loyal following on TikTok say upcoming ban violates their rights By Ralph Green , Staff writer Jan 17, 2025 Bar 7 Ranch content creators Cody and Erika Archie and ...
What Happened to TikTok’s Project Texas? | Lawfare
Mar 20, 2024 · In an attempt to signal that its promises are not empty, TikTok has implemented many of Project Texas’s features, including transferring U.S. user data to the cloud infrastructure of Oracle, a U.S. company. But the few lawmakers who have raised Project Texas have dismissed it out of hand, while typically neglecting to mention any specific ...
Covered Applications and Prohibited Technologies - Texas
On December 7, 2022, Governor Greg Abbott required all state agencies to ban the video sharing application TikTok and other prohibited technologies from all state-owned devices and networks over the Chinese Communist Party’s ability to use the application for surveilling Texans.
East Texas TikTok users await Supreme Court decision of TikTok …
Dec 13, 2024 · CENTER, Texas (KTRE) - Time is ticking for a popular social media app, following a court ruling. If TikTok is not sold to a new owner by Jan.19, 170 million Americans could end up losing access...
Texas’ TikTok ban hit with First Amendment lawsuit
Jul 13, 2023 · Texas’s ban on TikTok at state institutions violates the First Amendment, claims a lawsuit filed Thursday by a group of academics and civil society researchers.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bans TikTok on state phones and …
Dec 7, 2022 · Gov. Greg Abbott banned the social media platform TikTok from government-issued cellphones and computers on Wednesday, becoming the latest GOP governor to target the video-sharing app over...