Can the US ban TikTok? U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio introduced a bill that would ban the social media app by ByteDance.
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The bill specifically names TikTok and its parent, ByteDance, as social media companies for the purposes of the legislation. Rubio and one of the House sponsors of the bill, Wisconsin Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher, had indicated their intention to introduce the bill in a Washington Post op-ed last month.
The flurry of activity contrasts with the lengthy negotiations TikTok has been having for years with the US government on a potential deal that may allow the company to address the national security concerns and to continue serving US users."The federal government has yet to take a single meaningful action to protect American users from the threat of TikTok," Rubio said in a statement. "There is no more time to waste on meaningless negotiations with a CCP-puppet company.
"We will continue to brief members of Congress on the plans that have been developed under the oversight of our country's top national security agencies-plans that we are well underway in implementing-to further secure our platform in the United States," McQuaide added.
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