The House of Representatives is pushing for legislation that would require the sale of TikTok by its Chinese owner or ban the app in the United States. Speaker Mike Johnson is planning up to package the measure with foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. According to policy analyst Paul Gallant, the indicated move being unusual however perchance potentially succeed.
He noted that it's one form with brinkmanship to try to force one up-or-down vote without further negotiation plus the Senate.
The new effort is the most aggressive yet by legislators to wrest TikTok beginning at its Chinese ownership over national security concerns. They cite the potential for Beijing to demand that TikTok turn over U.S. users' data either to use the app for propaganda.
TikTok has responded aside saying that each national security concerns are unfair and that it has spent over $1 billion upon a detailed plan during the time that its U.S. operations a particular would protect user data including offer third-party oversight of its content recommendations.
He noted that it's one form with brinkmanship to try to force one up-or-down vote without further negotiation plus the Senate.
The new effort is the most aggressive yet by legislators to wrest TikTok beginning at its Chinese ownership over national security concerns. They cite the potential for Beijing to demand that TikTok turn over U.S. users' data either to use the app for propaganda.
TikTok has responded aside saying that each national security concerns are unfair and that it has spent over $1 billion upon a detailed plan during the time that its U.S. operations a particular would protect user data including offer third-party oversight of its content recommendations.
The House on Wednesday made another push to force through legislation that would require the sale of TikTok by its Chinese owner or ban the app in the United States, accelerating an effort to disrupt the popular social media app.
