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In mere hours, the US House of Representatives will vote on the TikTok bill under “suspension of the rules”. Under suspension, floor debate is limited, all floor amendments are prohibited, points of order against the bill are waived, and final passage requires a two-thirds majority vote.
By “people” I mean, of course, US officials, Congress members and everyone all the way up to the POTUS – Trump was briefly obsessed with TikTok, now Biden is.Prior to that, members of Congress were flooded with calls and emails from angry TikTok users. The reason for this virtual flash mob is that TikTok rolled out this push notification:
US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told a House of Representatives intelligence committee hearing that she “cannot rule out” that China could use TikTok to influence the 2024 US elections. That’s great, but what was that saying about the speck in your brother's eye and the plank in your own eye?portion out of the 170 million users will be heartbroken to see TikTok go. After all, the app algorithms are there for a reason: to get you hooked.
According to statistics and research, there are over 100,000 TikTok influencers in the United States across a number of different niches. Theportion of them can earn as much as $500,000 per post, with an average of $100,000 to $250,000 . Senator Mark Warner said: “I think that we still need to find a way to follow India, which has prohibited TikTok. I'm a little worried about a mixed message”.
My guess is that nothing happens for TikTok users either way, at least not in any fundamental way. If a US-based company buys it, almost all should be the same for the end user, apart from certain algorithm tweaking, or imposing some age-restriction requirements: anyway, the Congress is not that interested in the TikTok content per se. Their problem lies with user data going over to China, at least they present it that way.
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