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Washington DC – House of Representatives voted on Wednesday through a bill that would force Tiktok cutting ties with its Chinese owner or being banned in the United States.
The House of Representatives voted overwhelming through a bill that would force Tiktok to cut ties with prey dance or be banned in the United States. © Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP
Legislation is the biggest threat for the platform.
The legislators voted 352 in favor of the proposed law and 65 against, in a rare moment of two -party unit in politically divided Washington.
The fate of the bill is unsure of SenateWhere the key figures are against making such a drastic move towards an intensely popular app that has 170 million American users.
President Joe Biden will sign the bill, officially known as the protective Americans from the Foreign opponent Act, to law, if it comes to his desk, the White House has said-to the 81-year-old only recently launched their own account.
The action, which passed unanimously through the committee last week, requires Tiktok’s parent company, BytaDance, to sell the app within 180 days or see it excluded from Apple and the Google App stores in the United States.
It would also give the president the power to appoint other applications to a national security threat if it is under the control of a country that is considered opposites for the United States.
Some Democrats, such as California Rep. Robert Garcia (c.) And rep. Delia Ramirez from Illinois (6th from r.), The target proposal, which they claim will only harm content creators. © Reutants
The Resurgent campaign by Washington against Tiktok came as a surprise to the company, reported the Wall Street Journal, with Tiktok managers calmed when Biden joined the app last month as part of their campaign for a second term.
“This latest legislation that is rushed through at unique speed without even the benefit of a public hearing constitutes serious constitutional problems,” wrote Michael Beckerman, Tiktok’s Vice President of Public Policy, in a letter to the bill’s fellow sponsors that AFP has seen.
The fellow sponsors, the House Republican Mike Gallagher and the House Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi, as well as the White House, claim that the bill is not a ban on Tiktok as long as the company divests from Bytedance.
In a turn from his former position, former President Donald Trump said on Monday He is against a banMainly because it would strengthen the meta, the owner of Instagram and Facebook, which he called an “enemy enemy.”
Some Democrats, like California’s rope. Robert Garcia and rope. Delia Ramirez from Illinois, opposes the bill, which they claim will only harm content creators.
Other Efforts to ban tictoc Also failed, with a bill proposed a year ago not to come largely over freedom of expression.
Similarly, a state law was adopted in Montana prohibiting the platform turned off by a federal court On the suspicion that it was probably violated the rights of freedom of freedom.
