US bans TikTok owner ByteDance, will prohibit app in US unless it is sold
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The Senate last night approved a bill that orders TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the company within 270 days or lose access to the US market.
The “Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” was approved as part of a larger appropriations bill that provides aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
“Congress is not acting to punish ByteDance, TikTok, or any other individual company,” Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) said, according to the Associated Press.
“Congress is acting to prevent foreign adversaries from conducting espionage, surveillance, maligned operations, harming vulnerable Americans, our servicemen and women, and our US government personnel.”
Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) expressed concern that the bill “provides broad authority that could be abused by a future administration to violate Americans’ First Amendment rights.”
In a statement today, TikTok said it “will ultimately prevail” in court and that “we have invested billions of dollars to keep US data safe and our platform free from outside influence and manipulation.”
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