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Last week, a bipartisan House bill was introduced that could mean the end of popular video app TikTok in the U.S. The proposed legislation would ban TikTok in the states if its parent company, ByteDance doesn't sell its interest in the app. ByteDance is a Chinese company and U.S. lawmakers are concerned about TikTok's connection with China and fear that the company collects personal data from TikTok subscribers.
The bill was introduced by introduced by Reps. Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi ; the pair are the top lawmakers on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. If the bill becomes law, ByteDance would have more than five months to divest itself of TikTok. If ByteDance stands pat, TikTok would become illegal to distribute from a U.S. app storefront or a web housing platform.
TikTok spokesperson Alex Haurek told The Hill,"This bill is an outright ban of TikTok, no matter how much the authors try to disguise it. This legislation will trample the First Amendment rights of 170 million Americans and deprive 5 million small businesses of a platform they rely on to grow and create jobs." President Joe Biden already said on Friday that if the bill makes it out of Congress, he will sign it.. U.S.
By monthly average users, TikTok is the fourth largest social media platform in the world. It currently has over 1 billion monthly average users. Since its launch in 2016, the app has been installed over 3 billion times.A discussion is a place, where people can voice their opinion, no matter if it is positive, neutral or negative. However, when posting, one must stay true to the topic, and not just share some random thoughts, which are not directly related to the matter.
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