On Wednesday, March 13, the House of Representatives of the US Congress supported a bill to ban TikTok in the US. As a reminder, the project requires the separation of the video service from the parent Chinese company ByteDance within 6 months, and if this does not happen, TikTok will be banned in the country.
352 congressmen voted for the bill, 65 spoke against it. After that, it goes to the upper chamber, the Senate, where it can wait for some time due to more urgent matters. President Biden has already announced that he will sign the bill if it passes the Senate and ends up on his desk.
“Communist China is America’s greatest geopolitical enemy and is using technology to actively undermine America’s economy and security. “Today’s bipartisan vote demonstrates Congress’s opposition to Communist China’s efforts to spy on and manipulate Americans, and demonstrates our determination to deter our enemies,” spokesman Mike Johnson said after the vote.
50 Democrats and 15 Republicans voted against the bill. Among them is the well-known supporter of Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Green, from the state of Georgia. He also baffled his colleagues with his vote against the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut.
“They are shutting down newspapers, broadcasting stations and social media platforms. We don’t do that. We believe that our citizens will be worthy of their democracy. We don’t trust our government to decide what information they can or can’t see,” Hymes said.
The vote took place against the backdrop of protests that have been ongoing in the United States in recent days. Many entrepreneurs do business on TikTok, placing ads and selling goods and services. For some, this is almost the only source of income.
One step away from banning TikTok in the US: the committee supported the bill, Biden will sign it
Source: NBC News
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