Posted on 03/08/2024 10:41:31 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
House Republican leadership is moving forward with a vote on a bipartisan bill that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok — or face a ban — next Wednesday, despite former President Donald Trump’s public opposition to the measure.
House Republican leaders huddled Friday morning to confirm the House would move forward on the TikTok bill with plans to bring it to the House floor under suspension, a maneuver that speeds the process and limits amendments to bills that can win a two-thirds majority vote, according to two sources familiar with the plans.
The legislation from Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis. and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., the leaders of the House Select Committee on China, would force Beijing-based ByteDance to sell off TikTok within 180 days or otherwise would effectively ban the app in the U.S. by penalizing app stores that host it.
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There's hardly a news article out there today that doesn't use the name Trump in order to get readers......
Too many small businesses will be harmed.
PRC is too tied up with ByteDance.
Additionally, is American user data kept in servers in US? Or in PRC?
I don't know about TikTok, but Zoom allegedly routes all of its teleconferencing crypto keys through a single server in a building owned by the CCP.
Zoom is banned for use by US Federal workers. Google also bans it for use within their company.
American interests should never be muzzled. CCP interests are not American interests. They are anti-American interests. Every aspect of CCP needs divested from TikTok.
Why is Trump trying to complicate this? Nor did I ever understand how sending our manufacturing to China benefits Americans. Many Repubs and globalists in the 80s pushed that. They were wrong. Shut down TikTok unless they shut down all connections to CCP. Even then it only harms our youth.
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