The US House of Representatives passed the bill to ban Tik Tok by a majority
352 members voted in favor and only 65 against.
TikTok’s vice president of public policy, criticized the bill, saying the latest law was passed without a public hearing at an unprecedented speed.
Washington ( Web News )
The US House of Representatives passed a bill banning the Chinese technology company Tik Tok by a majority. will go According to AFP, the U.S. House of Representatives voted in an unusually unanimity, with 352 members voting in favor of the bill and only 65 against. The legislation is too big for TikTok. Shock has grown in popularity over the past few years, but western countries have expressed their concerns several times over the fact that it is owned by a Chinese company of video sharing and over-bent by China’s Communist Party. The future of the bill remains in question as the bill needs to be approved by the Senate after Congress to be enacted, but critics have criticized the decision as such a drastic step against such an application. How can it be raised, which has 17 million followers in the United States alone? White House said in a statement that if this bill comes to President Joe Biden’s desk, he will be able to protect Americans from applications controlled by foreigners. Under this bill, TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, will have to sell the application within 180 days, otherwise it will be sold on the Apple and Google Play stores in the United States. It will be banned. Under this act, the President has the power to declare any application running under the shadow of an anti-American country as a threat to national security. Regarding the ban, this bill ticks. It is quite surprising for Talk because according to the Wall Street Journal, US President Joe Biden joined TikTok last month in connection with his presidential campaign. Michael Beckerman, TikTok’s vice president of public policy, criticized the bill, saying the latest law was passed without a public hearing at an unprecedented speed. Whitehouse, along with co-sponsors Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Republican in the House, and Rep. Raja Krishnamurthy, a Democrat, said the bill does not ban TikTok, but only allows the company to China warned on Wednesday that this move would prove to be harmful to the United States. Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin condemned it, saying that the United States will never have proof of this. Did not find that Tik Tok is a threat to American national security, but despite this, they did not stop suppressing Tik Tok. In all this situation, Donald Trump changed his previous position and said on Monday that he is against the ban. , the main reason is that it will empower Instagram and Facebook owner Metta, who he has already called an enemy of the people. It is also worth noting that when Trump was the US president, he Dance tried to take control of Tik Tok, but the US courts stopped him from this move. Meanwhile, there are echoes that Trump changed his position because a major investor in Tik Tok, hedge funder Jeff. Yass is actually donating to Trump’s 2024 campaign, but Trump has denied the allegations. Trump ally Rep. Nancy Mays said, “I think this bill will die in the Senate, it’s not our job.” On the other hand, the statement from the company said that TikTok strongly denies any ties with the Chinese government and has restructured the company so that the data of US users remains in the country.