The latest TikTok ban bill has been tacked onto a foreign aid package, making it much harder for the Senate to ignore.
A TikTok ban is back on the table after the House approved a new bill on Saturday addressing the issues that stalled it out in the Senate. The bill would allow the Biden administration to ban TikTok nationwide if it doesn’t divest from its China -based owner, Bytedance, within a year. It’s different from a similar bill passed in the House last month and gives TikTok an additional six months to find a US buyer.
“The only solution to this pervasive ecosystem is prohibiting the collection of our data in the first place,” wrote the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit digital rights group, in a post last month. “Ultimately, foreign adversaries will still be able to obtain our data from social media companies unless those companies are forbidden from collecting, retaining, and selling it, full stop.” Even X owner Elon Musk spoke out against the ban.
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