U.S. Senate passes TikTok ban bill

According to news from this site on April 24, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that may lead to TikTok being banned in the United States with an overwhelming majority of 79 votes in favor and 18 votes against. The bill requires ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban. The bill, called the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, will next go to President Joe Biden to sign into law, and Biden has said he will will sign the bill.

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This site noticed that although this is not the first time that the United States has tried to forcefully ban or divest TikTok, This bill has received far more support than ever before. The bill was introduced in March and received overwhelming bipartisan support in the House. A slightly modified version passed the Senate on Saturday as part of a package of foreign Norway bills.

U.S. President Biden subsequently issued a statement on the Senate’s passage of the Ukraine aid bill, saying that the passage of this bill “responded to the call of history.” He will sign the bill into law once it reaches his desk tomorrow.

Under the latest terms, TikTok has up to 12 months to spin off from parent company ByteDance or face being banned from U.S. app stores and web hosting services. TikTok called the bill unconstitutional and said it would launch a legal challenge to such laws.

Meanwhile, some lawmakers have expressed skepticism, saying there is fiction behind the alleged threat posed by TikTok. Free speech and digital rights groups also opposed the bill, arguing that comprehensive privacy legislation would be a more effective way to protect American personal data. TikTok CEO Zhou Shouzi made a similar argument in congressional testimony last year, saying a forced sale would not address concerns about the app's data issues.

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