The US House of Representatives Commerce and Energy Committee unanimously approved a bill that could potentially lead to a ban on TikTok in the US. writes about this Reuters.
If the document passes both houses of Congress and is signed by the president, ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, will either have to give up control of the social network for six months or face a ban in the United States. Approximately 170 million people in the USA use the TikTok application.
TikTok representatives commented on the support of some American lawmakers for the bill and said, “The government is trying to deprive 170 million Americans of their constitutional right to freedom of expression.”
Congress reported that active users of the platform began to call collectively to demand that TikTok not be banned.
Before that, Republican Mike Gallagher and Democrat Raja Krishnamurthy contributed In the U.S. House of Representatives is the Protecting Americans from Apps Controlled by Foreign Attackers bill, which names ByteDance and TikTok as apps controlled by “foreign attackers.”
If approved in the Senate, the bill would allow the US president to ban other apps controlled by “foreign adversaries.” We are talking about China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.
Previously on EU TikTok suspicious It is against the law on protection of personal data.