The US House of Reps has passed a bill to ban TikTok unless it cuts ties to Communist China. Chinese parent ByteDance must sell TikTok to another nationality in six months or be shut down.
The Foreign-Adversary-Controlled Applications Bill came as TikTok expanded from 60-second personal videos into news providing. It got 352 to 65 votes amid data that TikTok spies on Americans and may sway them as presidential elections near.
TikTok worries Europe for another reason. Also last week, Italy penalized it $10.94 million for exposing minors to harmful content. Beijing’s 2017 National Intelligence Law compels all Chinese citizens and companies to participate in domestic and overseas spying, and to keep such participation secret. Chinese national Zhang Yiming founded ByteDance in Beijing in 2012.
His hated Meta would benefit most from a TikTok ban, he told Republican partymates in the Senate. Meta exiled Trump from Facebook, Instagram and Reels after his followers stormed Capitol Hill to protest his defeat by Biden in 2020. European governments prohibited the use of TikTok in state devices since 2020. India forbade it even from private users that year after a border skirmish with China. Nepal is contemplating a similar ban.
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