TikTok ban: all the news on the app’s shutdown and return in the US
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Turns out Congress might still want to ban TikTok.
After months of little serious discussion about TikTok on Capitol Hill, the House Energy and Commerce committee just unanimously passed a bill that could effectively ban the app unless it separates from its Chinese parent company ByteDance.
Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) pointed to TikTok’s plea to users to contact their representatives about voting against the bill as “a small taste” of how the Chinese Communist Party can weaponize apps. After the vote, TikTok wrote on X that the “government is attempting to strip 170 million Americans of their Constitutional right to free expression.”
House Energy and Commerce Committee Markup of Two Bills to Protect American Data and National Security from Foreign Adversaries
[House Committee on Energy and Commerce]
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