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Controversial Tiktok counting is facing Pushback in the Senate
A bill that would force the sale of Tiktok from its Chinese owners or see it forbidden in the United States will move cautiously in the Senate after small house resistance.
Washington DC – A bill that would force sales of Tiktok from their Chinese owners or see it forbidden in the United States will move carefully in US Senatesaid key accusers, after that sailed through the house.
A bill that would force the sale of Tiktok from its Chinese owners or see it forbidden in the United States will move cautiously in the US Senate, said key leader, after sailing through the house. © Collage: Unsplash/Harold Mendoza & Unsplash/selenium Feyiss
Bill’s Whirlwind House Passage on Wednesday and its support from President Joe Biden had raised alarm bells like the app, used by 170 million In the United States, it can be suspended within a few months.
But hopes from Tiktok’s enemies that the Senate could also move quickly were dashed with important senators who say they would put the proposed law through the usual legislative process, which can take months.
“These areas develop and change so quickly that you can do a lot of harm by moving too quickly or without facts,” Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat who is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told The Washington Post on Friday.
Adopting greater legislation is particularly difficult during an election year, and supporters of the bill has bitterly predicted that the chamber’s proposed law would die in the Senate.
“What we are likely to see happen in the Senate is that people will be nickel-and-dim, a death of a thousand cuts,” said Republican Senator Josh Hawley to Axios.
“Nothing so big Techniques Do not want movements over the Senate floor, he said.
Senate leader who is not committee on TikTok count
Tiktok CEO Shou Zi Chew listens to a question when he testifies during House Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing on “TikTok: How Congress can protect American data secrecy and protect children from online damage”, on Capitol Hill, March 23, 2023, in Washington, DC. © Jim Watson / AFP
Senate leaders who would be responsible for renting the proposed law through a complicated change process and get it to a vote has been non -Committee on the bill.
After the house’s vote, Senator Maria Cantwell, a Democrat who is chairman of the Trade Committee, said that she would “try to find a way forward that is constitutional and protects civic freedoms.”
Republicans also expressed caution, and on Thursday Donald Trump Repeated his resistance To all the ban on Tiktok and asks their supporters to focus their anger on Facebook owner Meta instead.
Trump’s position, which was surprisingly ignored by Republicans in Wednesday’s voice, is a turn from His previous efforts as president to force TikTok away from his Chinese change of ownership. These efforts were finally blocked by the courts.
Some Western governments have expressed concern about Tiktok’s soaring popularity and claim that the app’s ownership makes it subordinate to Beijing and can be used as a lead to spread propaganda – claims that both Tiktok and Beijing deny.
The White House has said that Biden will sign the bill if it reaches his desk.
