The US House Foreign Relations Committee (one of the groups in the US Congress) plans to put a bill to vote in Congress in February 2023 to block TikTok in the country. About informs Reuters agency.
The initiative was initiated by the commission chairman, Republican Michael McCall. It plans to provide the White House with legal tools to block the Chinese social network “for US national security reasons.”
“The problem is that this app [TikTok] It gives the Chinese government a loophole on our phones,” McCall said.
In 2020, the pressure on TikTok in the USA began to be applied by Donald Trump. The former US president aimed to remove TikTok from the App Store and Google Play, as well as impose other restrictions on the service, but lost a number of lawsuits and failed to achieve the desired result.
Reuters noted that it would be difficult for the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Relations to get the approval of the ban bill. The fact is that 60 senators, the absolute majority, would have to vote for him.
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