The state agencies of Louisiana and West Virginia are the latest to ban the use of the popular social media service TikTok on government-run devices last Monday, the 19th. They fear that China will use it to track Americans and censor content.

Government computer access to TikTok, owned by ByteDance Ltd, a Beijing-based company, is now blocked at least partially in some 19 of the 50 US states. Last week, some members of Congress proposed a nationwide ban, which would follow countries like India that have already banned its use.

Jamf Holding Corp said that its government customers have increasingly blocked access to TikTok since the middle of this year. It sells software to organizations to enable filtering and security measures on iPhones and other Apple devices. In fact, around 65% of TikTok login attempts were blocked this month on devices managed by Jamf's public sector customers around the world, compared to 10% of connections blocked in June. School districts and various other agencies including.