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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill this afternoon that would require TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the popular societal metier app or see it banned in the United States .
Efforts to ban TikTok go back to the Trump disposal , but the take has been revive in late months . The House alreadypassed a exchangeable billin March — a bill that the Senateshowed fiddling interestin remove up . This new variant expands the window for ByteDance to sell TikTok to nine month ( liken to six month in the former bill ) and render the chairperson the ability to grant a single , additional 90 - Clarence Day extension .
It sounds like the variety has satisfied some Senate skeptics . Senate Commerce chair Maria Cantwell ( D - Washington)told newsman Thursdaythat she ’d evoke the extension , as it “ assures that divestiture will more likely happen . ”
The Modern measure was pass 360 - 58 , with strong support from a bulk of both Republicans and Democrats . It ’s part of a larger package that includes foreign economic aid to Ukraine , Israel , and Taiwan , and was belike included as a mode for House Speaker Mike Johnson to pull in more materialistic support .
The Senate could take up the package this come hebdomad , and President Joe Biden has saidhe supports the bill and will sign on it . If that happens , TikTok is expected to challenge the bill in court .
Biden ’s administration has been briefing lawmakers on what it say are the national security menace posed by the app — both as a rootage of data on American substance abuser for the Taiwanese government and as a channel for that same government to push propaganda to Americans . On the other side of the aisle , House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Michael McCaul ( radius - Texas)described the app todayas “ a spy balloon in Americans ’ phones ” used to “ survey and tap America ’s personal information . ”
When it became clear a TikTok bill was back on the table earlier this workweek , the companyposted a statementarguing that the House is “ using the cover of important strange and humanitarian help to once again jam through a proscription banker’s bill that would trample the free speech rights of 170 million Americans , lay waste to 7 million businesses , and shutter a platform . ”
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polite liberties groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and American Civil Liberties Union and have alsoopposed former attempts to ostracize the app .
