A new Quinnipiac University poll found a majority of Americans support a House plan to ban TikTok if the company does not divest itself of Chinese control.
A slim majority of Americans are in favor of a House bill that would ban TikTok if the platform is not sold to a company without ties to the Chinese Communist Party, according to a Wednesday poll. The poll from Quinnipiac University found that 51% of Americans support the legislation, compared to 41% who support an outright national ban. A plurality of voters, 47%, said they oppose the latter move. Broken down by age, however, younger Americans are far more likely to defend access to TikTok.
The bill, led by House China Select Committee Chair Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and ranking member Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., would block TikTok in the U.S. if its parent company, Bytedance, does not divest from it within 165 days of passage. It would also require it to be bought by a country that is not a U.S. adversary. TikTok’s critics have long called the social media app a national security threat.
TikTok fires everybody up and then our offices are getting called with thousands of people calling up. Some kid called in, said they were gonna commit suicide. We have people calling in saying, ‘I’m on this all day long, every day. You can’t take this away from me,’' Roy said at the time. 'It’s like we called into an AA meeting.' The bill passed through the House with a widely bipartisan 352-65 vote.
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