On Saturday, the US House of Representatives approved a bill aimed at banning the TikTok application as part of an aid package for Israel and Ukraine. the CNN The social media company with 170 million US users says it is struggling to survive. US President Joe Biden has already stated this
Sign the TikTok bill if it reaches his desk.
If the bill passed Saturday is signed into law, TikTok will have 270 days to find a new owner. The bill also gives the White House the option to extend that deadline for another 90 days if the president believes progress has been made toward a sale.
TikTok opposed the bill. “It is unfortunate that the House is using the guise of critical foreign and humanitarian assistance to once again push a blocked bill that would erase the free speech rights of 170 million Americans, destroy 7 million businesses, and shut down a $24 billion platform.” “A year for the US economy,” TikTok wrote in a post on X on Wednesday.
Mental health and national security risks
If approved by the US Senate and then signed by President Joe Biden, the United States could become the third country in the world, after India and Afghanistan, to completely ban the social networking site TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.
In the United States, in addition to its negative impact on the mental health of young people, they support banning the most popular application for this age group, saying that, according to representatives, it poses a risk to national security, and it also collects much more personal data than other social media giants, which According to America, they can transfer it to an authoritarian Chinese government hostile to him.
For this last reason, it has already been partially banned in many countries. More than half of the 50 US states do not allow the app to be downloaded on government phones, but in addition to these, government employees in the European Union institutions, the United Kingdom, eight other European countries, Canada and Italy. Taiwan has also been banned from using it on its government phones.
In March, it was also announced in Canada that they could review potential national security threats posed by the Chinese tech giant, while in the UK, which typically works with Washington on security issues, many members of the ruling party want tougher action. Against TikTok if the app is eventually banned in America.
