2024-03-26 21:24:05
Growing national security concerns in the United States related to the Chinese company ByteDance have prompted bans on the popular video app.
The United States House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill to ban the use of TikTok, unless the social network ends its dependence on the company ByteDance.
As indicated by the legislators this week, the approval of the rule called Protecting Americans from Applications Controlled by Foreign Adversaries Act It is due to national security concerns related to the Chinese parent company.
In this sense, the bill, which was approved by 352 votes in favor and 65 againstmust be voted on by the US Senate, before reaching Joe Biden’s office for signature.
Mike Gallagher, Republican representative from Wisconsin, indicated that the TikTok application represents “a serious threat to the national security of the United States because it is owned by ByteDance, which meets the orders of the Chinese Communist Party”.
More than 300 thousand jobs
“This legislation, if it becomes law, will lead to the TikTok ban in the United States”said TikTok CEO and CEO Shou Zi Chew in a post on social network X.
In addition, ByteDance assured that the TikTok ban it puts more than 300 thousand jobs at risk.
Specifically, if the bill is ratified, the Chinese company ByteDance, owner of TikTok, would be given 180 days to sell the application.
If, on the other hand, the bill becomes law and ByteDance refuses to sell it, The United States would prohibit app stores from offering TikTok to the public.