Could TikTok be banned at some point in the United States?
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle proposed a bipartisan bill in Congress on Tuesday to ban the social media platform in the U.S.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) presented the Senate version of the bill, while Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) introduced the House version.
The ANTI-SOCIAL CCP Act would outlaw dealings with TikTok or its parent company Bytedance Ltd., or a subsidiary or an heir company of the two. Furthermore, the proposed law would ban transactions with social media groups supported by China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela.
“The federal government has yet to take a single meaningful action to protect American users from the threat of TikTok. This isn’t about creative videos — this is about an app that is collecting data on tens of millions of American children and adults every day,” Rubio said (h/t Mediaite)
“We know it’s used to manipulate feeds and influence elections. We know it answers to the People’s Republic of China. There is no more time to waste on meaningless negotiations with a CCP-puppet company. It is time to ban Beijing-controlled TikTok for good.”
Eduardo Razo is the Assistant Content Editor for BNM, which includes writing daily news stories on the news media industry. He can be found on Twitter @eddierazo_ or you can reach him by email at eddie1991razo@gmail.com.
