US House passes bill to force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face ban
The TikTok app seen on a phone in New York on 13 March 2024, as the US Congress voted on a bill that could ban the popular app in America should Chinese company ByteDance fail to divest from TikTok within six months
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Senate will review the legislation."We are working tirelessly to continue educating the Senate about the impact this proposed legislation would have on the 170 million Americans who use our service, TikTok told employees in a memo seen by Reuters."Our strategy remains the same - we continue to believe that the best way to address concerns about national security is with transparent, US-based protection of US user data.
"This is a critical national security issue. The Senate must take this up and pass it," No. 2 House Republican Steve Scalise said on social media platform X. The vote comes just over a week since the bill was proposed following one public hearing with little debate, and after action in Congress had stalled for more than a year. Last month, President Joe Biden's re-election campaign joined TikTok, raising hopes among TikTok officials that legislation was unlikely this year.
"Do we want TikTok, as a platform, to be owned by an American company or owned by China? Do we want the data from TikTok - children's data, adults’ data - to be going, to be staying here in America or going to China?" he said.
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