America's House of Representatives will vote on a bill that would force TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app to an owner of another nationality, or else face a ban in America. Other countries have also introduced restrictions. TikTok must cut its ties to China to stay on screens.
Videos keep its users up late into the evening. But the app’s links to China are causing politicians to lose sleep, too. On March 13th America’s House of Representatives will vote on a bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app to an owner of another nationality, or else face a ban in America, TikTok’s largest market. Other countries, from Britain and France to Australia, have begun to introduce some restrictions of their own.
The world’s most downloaded app, by one measure, may soon start disappearing from screens. To stay on them, TikTok must cut its ties to China. Some fears about TikTok are overblown. True, the firm hoovers up plenty of data about its users. But there is no evidence that it takes more than it claims (or indeed any more than rivals such as Facebook). If Chinese spies want to find out about Americans, the country’s lax data-protection laws allow them to buy such information from third parties
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