Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida teamed up with Democratic Representatives Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin and Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois.
, titled “Averting the National Threat of Internet Surveillance, Oppressive Censorship and Influence, and Algorithmic Learning by the Chinese Communist Party Act” or, more succinctly, the ANTI-SOCIAL CCP Act. If passed, the Act would then go to the President’s desk and if signed, would “block and prohibit all transactions in all property and interests in property of a social media company,” 30 days after passage.
The ANTI-SOCIAL CCP Act defines the social media company of interest as those that are either headquartered in, uses algorithms controlled by, or is influenced by a “country of concern,” while later specifying that the companies of interest are TikTok parent company ByteDance and any of its subsidiaries.“The federal government has yet to take a single meaningful action to protect American users from the threat of TikTok.
A growing wave of anti-TikTok regulations has crashed on several U.S. states in the previous weeks. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem began the charge late last month by being the first to issue a TikTok ban on state-owned devices. “We will play no part in allowing China to continue to gain intel and influence in our state,”
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