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Montana to vote Friday to ban platform tik tak through a law that could be difficult to enforce but increases pressure in the United States on the Chinese group’s popular video network bytedance.
The lower house of this northwestern state with a Republican majority registered on Thursday 60 votes in favor and 39 against SB419, which “bans TikTok in Montana”.
The Senate will vote on this bill on Friday, although the Senate already approved it last month. Once ratified by the Governor, it is due to enter into force on January 1, 2024.
“It’s time to confront the Chinese and veto tik takMP Brandon Lehr said. China “wants our data and our intellectual property,” he added.
Lehr also said it was a dangerous app for “health and safety, especially for the little ones.”
TikTok under pressure
From Mountain before House WhiteRepresentatives of Democrats and Republicans accuse the video platform of serving the Chinese government for spying and manipulating users.
tik tak, who has always denied the allegations, tried for years to appease the authorities, to no avail. In fact, the US Congress is also working on various projects to ban it across the country.
“This law is an outrageous violation of Montana’s free speech rights” and “a catastrophic precedent,” Montana’s COO said. tik takVanessa Pappas, after the State Senate vote in March.
The law will exclude Mountain communities of 150 million people in the United States,” he added.
But how will this law be applied against TikTok?
According to a spokesman for the platform, who was contacted on Thursday, the sponsors of the initiative “have themselves admitted that they did not have a realistic plan for implementing this attempt to censor American opinion.”
The bill would ban — under penalty of fines — app stores from distributing apps to government users. Mansana And Google They did not immediately respond to requests for comment from AFP.
However, the text states that the ban does not apply if tik tak is bought by a company from a country “not considered a competitor” of the United States.
Several independent experts stressed that the law faces legal challenges given the lack of precedent in the United States.
AFP
Source: RPP
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