Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives have prepared a bill aimed at banning TikTok, the social network owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. The newspaper reports this Top.
The bill, aimed at protecting Americans from apps controlled by foreign attackers, is sponsored by Republican Mike Gallagher and Democrat Raja Krishnamurthy. The document states that ByteDance and TikTok are applications controlled by “foreign attackers.”
According to the publication, the bill will force the Chinese company to give up TikTok, otherwise this platform may be banned in the United States.
“Unless the company gives up on TikTok, it will become illegal to distribute it through the App Store or web hosting platform in the US, effectively banning it even among existing users,” he said.
As the newspaper noted, the bill would allow the American president to ban other apps controlled by “foreign adversaries.” In the message, it becomes clear that we are talking about China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.
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