The application will only be allowed to continue working if it is not related to Chinese companies. The corresponding initiative is in the draft stage.
A law is being prepared in the United States that will ban the social network TikTok in the country if the relationship between the application and the Chinese technology company ByteDance continues. The corresponding bill was supported by the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, Reuters reports.
It is known that the document was strongly supported by 50 legislators.
The bill aims to sever ties between TikTok and any “Chinese-controlled entity,” including ByteDance.
The authors of the document give the company six months to sell the social network. Failure to do so will result in TikTok being banned from distribution in the United States.
US lawmakers hope to move quickly and say the US House of Representatives could take up the bill in the coming weeks.
ByteDance responded to the vote.
“This law has a predetermined outcome: a complete ban on TikTok in the United States. The government is trying to strip 170 million Americans of their constitutional right to free expression. It will harm millions of businesses, deny access of artists to audiences, and will destroy the livelihoods of countless creators across the country.” , – said ByteDance.
Before the vote, US lawmakers held a classified briefing on national security and TikTok’s ownership in China.
Committee Democrat Frank Pallone said he hoped the legislation would “force a move away from TikTok so Americans can continue to use it and other similar platforms without risk.”
Let’s remember that in May last year, the first state in the United States banned TikTok.
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