In 2022, there are 4.7 billion users worldwide.
The digital world is one of the worlds with the most users, so it is normal for global governments to start regulating these spaces. Given this, in the United States (USA) it is expected that by 2023 social networks will continue to be in the crosshairs of Congress due to practices that they consider to be a danger to users.
Social networks have evolved over the past decade to become a major engine for acquiring and disseminating information in different domains such as business, entertainment, crisis management, and politics. In the United States, the use of these spaces is very common among young people of the new generations, and according to emarketer, users in the United States now spend 7 more minutes on social networks than in 2019, a total of 82 minutes per day. Being Instagram and Snapchat the platforms that benefited the most from this.
As also, in the ABC.US document: United States digital report, it was identified that 86 percent, of the US population of more than 334 million people have the Internet and only 52 percent are active users of social networks.
In this sense, one of the most used platforms is TikTok, which is a social network that has attracted younger audiences in recent months, where In the United States, this specific social network has not been free of scandals stemming from its rapid adoption.
US Congressional Representative Mike Gallagher (R-Wisconsin) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) detailed which is expected to continue in 2023 the regulations on social networks.
Following his appearance on NBC, Gallagher compared TikTok to “digital fentanyl,” adding that he considers the app dangerous.
“It is highly addictive and destructive. We are seeing troubling data about the corrosive impact of constant social media use, particularly on young men and women here in the United States,” she said.
Let’s remember that in November 2022, Congress passed a bipartisan bill that prohibits the use of TikTok in government devices amid concerns that data obtained by the popular social media app could fall into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.
To that, TikTok, which draws more than a billion views a month, has repeatedly said that its US user data is not based in China, though those assurances have done little to assuage concerns.
Last year, the US Congress failed to pass the most aggressive technology-targeted bills, including antitrust legislation, to weaken the profitability of the app store Google and Apple and loosen their restrictions on developers, as well as recent sweeping measures that would protect children online.
While Congress made some progress last year toward a compromise bill on national privacy standards, there is still a lot of work to be done when it comes to how consumer data is protected.
In that sense, Senator Amy Klobuchar told “Meet the Press” that while there is bipartisan support for passing such legislation, the tech lobby is so powerful that bills with “strong bipartisan support” can fall apart “within 24 hours.”
“We are falling behind. It is time for 2023, let it be our resolution, that we finally pass one of these bills,” he explained.
The Government of the United States is not the only nation that has established a strong fight against social networks, Well, the European Union has also been struggling for years to regulate digital platforms in the lives of users, especially in that of young people.
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