House lawmakers voted to advance a bill that would ban TikTok from US app stores unless the social media platform’s parent, ByteDance, divests the company.

The measure that sailed unanimously through the House Energy and Commerce Committee would prohibit TikTok from US app stores unless the social media platform — used by roughly 170 million Americans — is quickly spun off from its China-linked parent company, ByteDance.

US officials have cited the widespread commercial availability of US citizens’ data as another source of national security risk. The US government and other domestic law enforcement agencies are also known to have purchased US citizens’ data from commercial data brokers.

  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    I think this is the right take. There is so much political activism on there, it gets almost annoying at times. 9 times out of 10 if there was some corruption, suspicious trade, or other nefarious thing done by a congress critter I seen it on Tiktok first.