On Tuesday, dozens of US Congress members introduced another bipartisan bill specifically aimed at TikTok's US operations, which attempts for the umpteenth time to force the Chinese parent company to regulate and spin off the social platform into a separate company.
The Protecting Americans from Foreign Controlled Apps Act, which already says so much in its name, would give ByteDance six months to sell TikTok, otherwise the (mobile) app designed to use the social platform must be removed from app markets operating in the United States. nation.
The legislation would also require TikTok and other affected apps to allow users to export their personal data from the platform in a format that can be easily exported to other services.
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Although TikTok is mentioned by name in some paragraphs, the legislation leaves open the possibility that its contents could apply to other platforms and apps as well. The sitting president makes a decision on whether a platform or app poses a risk to the national security of the United States.
ByteDance immediately strongly criticized the bill, which according to the company, no matter how hard it tries to hide it, is actually only about taking action against TikTok, which violates the constitutional rights of 170 million Americans and the business interests of about five million. American companies. This measure has been sharply criticized by local legal lawyers, and attention has been drawn to the fact that users' interests can be represented in other ways (such as provisions requiring proper handling of personal data).
By the way, this is already the third time that the United States has tried to force the sale of TikTok from ByteDance – the first decision on this matter was made by Donald Trump in 2020, but Joe Biden also tried to achieve the separation of TikTok .
