US Congress orders TikTok to cut ties with ByteDance.

The law requesting TikTok to sever connections with its parent business or risk being banned in the nation was approved by the Senate on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, April 24, the US Congress passed a bill requesting that the massive TikTok sever its connections to ByteDance, its parent firm, and China in general, lest it face being outlawed in the US. The American Congress’ other chamber, the House of Representatives, had approved the language a few days prior, and President Joe Biden promptly declared that he would promulgate it.

The highly publicized social network received an ultimatum from US lawmakers, along with a telegram offering a massive envelope containing aid for Taiwan, Israel, and the Ukraine. The Democratic candidate for president in November reaffirmed his “concern” on TikTok in a conversation with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the start of April.

Following the House of Representatives vote on Saturday, the well-known social network TikTok complained immediately, claiming that banning the platform “would violate the freedom of expression” of 170 million Americans. Should the text become law, ByteDance, the TikTok parent business based in China, will be required to sell the application within a year, or else it will not be available on Apple and Google stores in the United States.

Representatives had already approved a similar bill in the middle of March, giving themselves just six months to find a buyer who wasn’t Chinese, but the bill was still stuck in the legislative deadlock. Steven Mnuchin, a prominent banker and US Treasury Secretary under Donald Trump, even shown interest in organizing a group of investors to purchase TikTok domestically.

American authorities have been pursuing TikTok for years, as many suspect that Beijing uses the brief and amusing video platform to eavesdrop on its users in the country. Its possible prohibition, nevertheless, runs the risk of being contested in court.

Washington On Capitol Hill, where numerous prior attempts to outlaw the hugely popular video-sharing app due to worries about the parent company’s connections to China have fizzled, a fresh movement to outlaw TikTok is gathering steam.

With over 150 million monthly users, TikTok is one of the most popular apps in the United States and is owned by the Chinese corporation ByteDance. Legislators and national security experts have warned of China’s communist government gaining access to its massive data repository and using it to spy on Americans, coinciding with the country’s explosive growth in recent years.

The most recent effort to outlaw the app appears to be gathering momentum among Congress and the White House, despite other attempts to do so having mostly failed or encountered legal difficulties. What you should know about the new law is as follows:

What does the proposed TikTok bill entail?

“Protecting the national security of the United States from the threat posed by foreign adversary controlled applications” like TikTok is the stated goal of the 12-page law, also known as the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled programs Act.

In the event that it is approved and signed into law, it would be unlawful to distribute applications created by ByteDance, its affiliates, and other businesses “controlled by a foreign adversary,” unless the developer offloads the app within 180 days.

ByteDance would essentially have an option under the bill: either sell TikTok before the six-month deadline passes, or keep control and risk being blacklisted from US app shops and web hosting providers.

The proposed law, according to Wisconsin Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher, who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, would safeguard Americans’ freedom to free speech while allaying worries about national security.

Along with Illinois Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the top Democrat on the China committee, Gallagher introduced the bill. “If you value your personal freedom and privacy online, if you care about Americans’ national security at home, and yes, even if you want TikTok to stick around in the United States, this bill offers the only real step toward each of those goals,” Gallagher said.

According to Gallagher, it “provides the only path for the app to continue its operations in the United States without threatening Americans’ online freedom, privacy and security.”

During Thursday’s markup, House Energy and Commerce Committee leader Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers stated that the bill does not provide the current or future administrations “a blank check” to “ban whatever apps they want.”

“The threat to national security must be well documented, the public must be notified and the information must be presented to Congress, at which point the president may make a determination that a foreign adversary controlled application must be divested or face prohibition in the United States,” said the Washington Republican. “This prohibition can only be applied to applications controlled by a foreign adversary.”

Congress wants to outlaw TikTok, but why?

Legislators of both parties have frequently voiced their concerns that TikTok would be compelled to provide the Chinese government access to the data it gathers on millions of American users, which government could then use for espionage. Furthermore, they have issued a warning that false information and propaganda may be disseminated using the app.

“It is improper for America’s main enemy to be in charge of the country’s main media outlet. “Unless TikTok terminates its affiliation with CCP-controlled ByteDance, its time in the United States is at an end,” Gallagher stated in a statement unveiling the bill, making reference to the Chinese Communist Party.

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