House passes bill that would ban TikTok if its Chinese owners don't sell the app

If enacted, the bill would give the app's Chinese parent company ByteDance six months to divest from TikTok before app stores would start prohibiting access.

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[matthewharms]

Passed this bill faster than any federal budget bill.

[kevinjenner]

5/22/23. The E.U. fined Meta a record $1.3 billion after finding the Facebook parent broke its privacy laws by transferring user data from Europe to the United States.

[Spork]

The U.S. Congress loves to do everything but the things the American people need.

[Seniamau]

Mike made a great point - all this focus on TikTok, all the while China has apps like Temu and SHEIN that are absorbing as much information from Americans.

[JuliaShalomJordan]

How deep are they monitoring any buyers?!

Corruption can hide under corporations.

[burningeagle]

We got other problems in American like gun law, homeless and right these idiots main priority are try to ban a social media app just what the hell.

[Kevin-ldob]

What’s the difference US government and our corporations collecting our data and the Chinese government data? Both are bad but honestly I’m more nervous about our government and our companies with it.

[nillyk]

Ban Facebook too, Instagram and Twitter.

[garydavidson]

Al gore was right paying corporate to move jobs overseas is a bad idea

[dnnickalexander]

The lady with the gavel look like she don't play. 😂 I like that

[mtawali]

They made them an offer they can't refuse 😂😂😂

[ruili]

i must say the us government is so fast and so efficient. a new law like this can be passed only for a few weeks. wow!

[Eric-robw]

I don’t think I’ve ever wanted anything so badly.

[stitch]

There are a lot more reasons it should be banned besides the gathering of personal info.

[anonymousfan]

The app has done more harm than good especially with all the challenge videos that have landed people in the hospital and even got some killed.

[Anti_UTTP]

Aint no way tiktok got banned before gta 6💀💀💀💀

[curtisdonnelly]

We should have banned it long time ago

[smorris]

I hope they call our bluff. I hate this app. It’s full of jackasses and a whole lot of trouble. If business say they need this app for legitimate marketing purposes, I say, what did businesses do 10 and even 20 years ago?

[ft.jackjimmy]

This is lowkey a distopian future where music and dancing is ban while guns is enforced upon every schools and workplace. The story writes itself.

[lcama]

“Impossible” you say? 😂 don’t underestimate the internet