The US Senate voted in favor of legislation that could ban TikTok in the country if ByteDance doesn't divest its popular app.
The US Senate voted in favor of legislation that could ban TikTok in the country if ByteDance doesn't divest its popular app over the next nine months to a year. This bill comes amid widespread worries that China could access Americans' data or surveil them with the app. While the US House of Representatives has already passed the bill, it's up to President Joe Biden to sign this law, which appears he'll do this Wednesday.
The American Civil Liberties Union said that banning or requiring TikTok's divestiture would 'set an alarming global precedent for excessive government control over social media platforms.' Democratic Senator Ron Wyden offered a counterpoint to this bill, as he thinks it 'provides broad authority that could be abused by a future administration to violate Americans’ First Amendment rights.
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