Posted on 03/13/2024 7:51:28 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The House voted on Wednesday to pass a bill that could lead to a nationwide ban against TikTok, a major challenge to one of the world’s most popular social media apps.
The bill would prohibit TikTok from US app stores unless the social media platform — used by roughly 170 million Americans — is spun off from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. It’s not yet clear what the future of the bill will be in the Senate.
Lawmakers supportive of the bill have argued TikTok poses a national security threat because the Chinese government could use its intelligence laws against ByteDance, forcing it to hand over the data of US app users.
The push to pass the bill came up against headwinds from several different political directions: former President Donald Trump, who was once a proponent of banning the platform, has since equivocated on his position, while Democrats are facing pressure from young progressives among whom TikTok remains a preferred social media platform. TikTok creators and Beijing have responded angrily to the upcoming vote, with China’s foreign ministry calling it an “act of bullying.”
TikTok has called the legislation an attack on the constitutional right to freedom of expression for its users. It launched a call-to-action campaign within the app, urging users to call representatives in Washington to oppose the bill. Multiple congressional offices have said they’ve been flooded with calls.
The bill would give ByteDance roughly five months to sell TikTok. If not divested by that time, it would be illegal for app store operators such as Apple and Google to make it available for download.
The measure advanced unanimously out of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, and President Joe Biden has said he would sign the bill if it makes it to his desk.
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According to Raheem Kassam, the bill is exactly what Trump proposed. It is not about banning Tik Tok. He recommends reading the 12 page bill.
If they can go after TikTok, they can go after Rumble, FR and others.
Rumble and FR are not owned by hostile foreign governments. Have you read the text of the bill?
https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20240311/HR%207521%20Updated.pdf
Good.
Once you allow fascism in, it bites everyone.
“If they can go after TikTok, they can go after Rumble, FR and others.”
Gab, Truth Social, Christian sites...
This is a huge door for overreach that should have never been opened. It is a Trojan Horse.
Are daft enough to actually believe they will not expand these powers to any site they feel threatens their control of us subjects?
Watch... The Patriot act was meant to protect us not be used to enslave us, this will be the exact same.
Here are the 15 Republicans who voted against the bill:
Andy Biggs of Arizona
Dan Bishop of North Carolina
Warren Davidson of Ohio
John Duarte of California
Matt Gaetz of Florida
Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia
Clay Higgins of Louisiana
Nancy Mace of South Carolina
Thomas Massie of Kentucky
Tom McClintock of California
Alex Mooney of West Virginia
Barry Moore of Alabama
Scott Perry of Pennsylvania
David Schweikert of Arizona
Greg Steube of Florida
Remember, the Republicans passed the bill.
“Remember, the Republicans passed the bill.”
They are just as fast to make this country communist as the Democrats.
“Here are the 15 Republicans who voted against the bill:
Andy Biggs of Arizona
Dan Bishop of North Carolina
Warren Davidson of Ohio
John Duarte of California
Matt Gaetz of Florida
Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia
Clay Higgins of Louisiana
Nancy Mace of South Carolina
Thomas Massie of Kentucky
Tom McClintock of California
Alex Mooney of West Virginia
Barry Moore of Alabama
Scott Perry of Pennsylvania
David Schweikert of Arizona
Greg Steube of Florida”
The only 15 with at least two brain cells to rub together.
Nancy Mace appears to be a MAGA convert.
The bill is pretty specific in that it only covers a “foreign a adversary country” and specifically ByteDance (TikTok), and only requires disvestment.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521/text/ih
Whoops, I’m wrong. They snuck in some weasel words to ban anybody:
(A) any of—
(i) ByteDance, Ltd.;
(ii) TikTok;
(iii) a subsidiary of or a successor to an entity identified in clause (i) or (ii) that is controlled by a foreign adversary; or
(iv) an entity owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by an entity identified in clause (i), (ii), or (iii); or
(B) a covered company that—
(i) is controlled by a foreign adversary; and
(ii) that is determined by the President to present a significant threat to the national security of the United States following the issuance of—
(I) a public notice proposing such determination; and
(II) a public report to Congress, submitted not less than 30 days before such determination, describing the specific national security concern involved and containing a classified annex and a description of what assets would need to be divested to execute a qualified divestiture.
Part (B) sucks
Good catch, I didn’t notice that...
“that is determined by the President to present a significant threat to the national security of the United States following the issuance of—”
This makes Biden the dictator of the US internet. I’m sure he will not abuse it...
Anyone who supported this is a complete idiot. Chistians, Conservatives, and anything “white” are now all on the chopping block if they do not adhere to Bi8den’s wishes.
But anything for the children right?
Surprised me.
It includes domain hosting too.
We will see how powerful the CCP’s lobby is in the US when the bill hits the Senate. Tim Tok is an instrument of the CCP. They have used “elite capture” to compromise most of our political and corporate elites. Biden is one of them.
Tim Tok is not being banned. Read the bill.
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