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U.S. House Committee Passes Bill That Would Ban TikTok in the U.S. If Chinese Parent Company Doesn’t Sell the App
A House committee approved a bill that would giving ByteDance 165 days to divest its ownership of TikTok -- or face a U.S. ban,
The short-form video app, as it has exploded in popularity in the U.S. and elsewhere, has been a target of American lawmakers — on both sides of the aisle — who are wary over its ties to China and how TikTok handles data of U.S. users. “We are deeply disappointed that the committee chose to ignore the serious First Amendment concerns raised by civil liberties groups and instead voted to advance this bill,” Jenna Leventoff, senior policy counsel at ACLU, said in a statement. In addition to requiring ByteDance to sell TikTok under the threat of a ban, the bill “creates a process for the President to designate certain, specifically defined social media applications that are subject to the control of a foreign adversary” and “pose a national security risk.”
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