Happy Wednesday all, The House passed a bill to potentially ban TikTok or force the sale of TikTok in the near future. The measure passed 352 to 65, and the bill now heads to the Senate, where many lawmakers share House colleagues’ concerns but will ultimately have to vote on it again. If it passes the Senate - it will reach the President’s desk, and Biden has said that he will ban it if it passes in Congress.
The bill in question does not ban TikTok. This article and articles like it are intentionally misleading. The bill would only require app stores to delist the app unless ByteDance sells TikTok US to a US company. I don't often agree with our congress, but on this issue I do.
ByteDance, the company that owns 100% of TikTok US, is a Chinese company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, and they are using TikTok to unlawfully influence and collect information on US citizens.
Yes, Facebook and Instagram are doing the same, but they aren't owned and run by a hostile foreign government.
The bill in question does not ban TikTok. This article and articles like it are intentionally misleading. The bill would only require app stores to delist the app unless ByteDance sells TikTok US to a US company. I don't often agree with our congress, but on this issue I do.
ByteDance, the company that owns 100% of TikTok US, is a Chinese company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, and they are using TikTok to unlawfully influence and collect information on US citizens.
Yes, Facebook and Instagram are doing the same, but they aren't owned and run by a hostile foreign government.
Im not a fan of tiktok at all