TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said in a video posted Wednesday the legislation if signed into law "will lead to a ban on TikTok in the United States... and would take billions of dollars out of the pockets of creators and...
The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday that would give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the US assets of the short-video app, or face a ban, in the greates...
US House passes bill that could ban TikTok nationwide The US House of Representatives has passed a landmark bill that could see TikTok banned in America. It would give the social media giant's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, six months to sell its controlling stake or the app would be bl...
But if it passes the Senate and is signed into law by President Biden, ByteDance would have six months to sell TikTok before any ban would take effect. How would a TikTok ban work? The most straightforward way for the US to ban TikTok would be to remove it from app stores, such as t...
The bill had bipartisan support in the House, and President Biden has saidhe would signthe legislation if it reaches his desk. However passage in the Senate is not guaranteed. Former President Trump, who attempted to ban TikTok in 2020, has nonethelesscome out againstthis bill. Free speech ad...
A bipartisan bill that would effectively ban the Chinese-owned app TikTok has passed out of a House committee with a unanimous 50-0 vote.(Matt Cardy/Getty Images / Getty Images) The bill was authored byRep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., who chairs the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist ...
" White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters last month after the U.S. House approved the TikTok Divestiture Bill by a an overwhelming vote of 352 to 65. But she said the White House doesn't see the bill as a ban on TikTok but rather ensuring its "ownership isn't ...
Under the proposed legislation, the alternative to ByteDance selling TikTok would be its being banned from app stores in the U.S. President Biden has saidhe will sign the billif it passes the Senate, but it remains to be seen whether anationwide banof the hugely popular app — if it came...
Day 1149 (March 13, 2024): US House of Representatives Passes Bill to Ban TikTok The US House of Representatives has voted to pass a Bill that would force ByteDance to divest from TikTok or be banned from operating in the US. The Bill passed with a vote of 352 in favor to 65 against...
The latest bill, which would ban TikTok in US if ByteDance did not sell its stake within a year, now goes to the Senate for vote. President Biden has said he would sign the legislation into law. TMTPost -- TikTok warned Sunday that a potential ban on the popular short video app would...