The US Congress passed a bill which may or may not make TikTok cut down its Chinese parent’s partnership or get banned in the US. National resolve may be mobilized, but with overwhelming bipartisan support, only 352 people voted for the bill, and 65 voted against it.
The proposed law will cause great harm to TikTok, which has earned global respect but also has raised the elements relating to its Chinese ownership and backup of the communist party in Beijing. Now, the bill should go to the Senate, where the key figures voice their opinions that such a decisive action toward a popular app with 170 million US users is not right.
Conversely, when the law hits the floor of the President’s office, leading figures like Joe Biden vow to sign it into law. The legislation, referred to as the
“Protecting American Users from Smartphones Controlled by Adversary from Foreign Entity Act,”
will require ByteDace, the parent company of TikTok, to either sell the app within 180 days or else the app store will remove TikTok from any major app store in the US.
This power also gives the president the authority to transfer other applications to the list of national security menaces. TikTok’s leading the admission was in town to request support to stop the bill’s effective progress.
