The bill passes at the committee level but some oppose it, including the top Democrat in the panel who said it was 'dangerously' broad, and may affect Korean and Taiwanese chip companies that supply Chinese firms.
have also banned TikTok from being loaded onto state-owned devices.
The Biden administration did not say whether it was in favor of moving ahead with the bill or not, or answer if it believed Biden has the legal authority now to ban TikTok. The US government’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States , a powerful national security body, in 2020 unanimously recommended ByteDance divest TikTok because of fears that user data could be passed on to China’s government.
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