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TikTok Wins a Vote in South Dakota
Whereas the federal authorities and not less than 18 states have restricted entry to TikTok on government-owned units in current weeks, South Dakota’s second-largest metropolis has gone the opposite manner.
Fast Metropolis’s metropolis council voted 8-1 earlier this week to kill a proposal that may have banned entry to TikTok on metropolis units and networks. The ban additionally would have prohibited metropolis businesses from utilizing the favored app.
The vote provides TikTok an early, albeit small, legislative victory as politicians and governors transfer to enact restrictions—or threaten to take action—throughout the nation. TikTok has roughly 100 million American customers, lots of them younger. That recognition threatens to broaden the general public debate over strikes to limit it past the national-security issues that many American officers have raised in regards to the Chinese language-owned app.
Fast Metropolis, inhabitants 76,000, took up the TikTok matter at Tuesday’s city-council assembly.
TikTok nonetheless faces a lot larger challenges in Washington. Some officers within the Biden administration need to attempt to power TikTok’s proprietor, Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., to promote the app to a U.S. firm. And a bipartisan group of Congress members have launched a invoice that may ban TikTok for all People, not simply public servants with authorities units.
The officers pushing for a pressured sale or ban say the Chinese language authorities may order TikTok to gather information on People or to affect what movies People watch on the app. TikTok says it might refuse such an order.
Some Biden administration officers need to attempt to power TikTok’s Chinese language proprietor to promote the app to a U.S. firm.
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In Fast Metropolis, Councilman Jason Salamun stated he launched the proposal for the city-government ban after watching federal leaders and the South Dakota governor take comparable motion. “If a couple of menace, and also you don’t deliver it ahead, it might be negligent,” Mr. Salamun, a possible candidate within the metropolis’s mayoral election in June, stated Wednesday. Mr. Salamun was the only council member who voted in help of the ban.
Amongst these opposing the proposed ban was Councilwoman Laura Armstrong, a declared mayoral candidate. She obtained an evaluation from cybersecurity researchers from the Web Governance Venture, which is a part of the Georgia Institute of Expertise’s public-policy faculty. The group describes itself as impartial. The report concluded that TikTok didn’t pose a critical safety menace. Different researchers have reached the other conclusion.
Ms. Armstrong shared the report with fellow council members, together with Ritchie Nordstrom. He stated he spent hours researching the subject and reached the identical conclusion.
“We simply stored coming again to: ‘There’s no proof on this,’ ” Ms. Armstrong stated. “I’m not an enormous fan of the Chinese language authorities, however to get sucked into what I deem as media McCarthyism just isn’t the precise factor.”
Write to Stu Woo at Stu.Woo@wsj.com
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Flooding impacts South Dakota
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SOUTH DAKOTA (KELO) — Flooding continues to impact much of South Dakota.
KELOLAND viewers and team members alike have sent us lots of photos of flood damage. Take a look at some of the photos below.
Drone footage of La Mesa courtesy Kale Foster
If you have flood photos you would like to share with us, we would love to add them to our stories on air and online! You can send them to our email at uShare@keloland.com.
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History of the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota | Dakota Life
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In June of 1974, a construction worker, George Hanson, unearthed unusual bones while the area was prepared for a new subdivision in Hot Springs, South Dakota. His son recognized one of the finds as a mammoth tooth. The find led to a paleontological site at which research and excavations are continuing.
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U.S. Olympic Trials bring South Dakota connections to the test
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – The US Olympic Trials are still in full swing, as hopeful athletes look to make their way to Paris. Some athletes with South Dakota connections are competing to make their path, some in Indianapolis and some out in Eugene, Oregon.
First up was Bryn Greenwaldt of Augustana women’s swim and dive team. She competed in the 50 Freestyle short course yards, finishing 5th in her heat with a time of 25 point 93 seconds. That placed her 56th overall out of 27 heats, and she will not move on in the trials.
He cleared through the first round, and the former South Dakota Coyote Chris Nilsen is getting ready to vault again in the finals tonight. Nilsen tied for the second best vault at 18 feet, eight and one-quarter inches, or five point seven meters. Those finals start Sunday night at 7:40 PM.
Finally, a former South Dakota State Jackrabbit is looking to secure his place in the 100 meter finals. Coby Hilton ran in the fourth heat out of five in the first round, running a 10.19. That’s five one-hundredths of a second slower than his personal best, but good enough to get him into the semifinals.
Those semifinals begin Sunday night at 7:48 PM.
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