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.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    You mean app stores such as the one run by a US defense contractor, advertising platform, and spy agency poorly masquerading as a consumer-facing company?

    Or the one run by the company infamous for subjecting their overseas workforce to such atrocious working conditions for so little pay that their method of keeping employee turnover to a minimum is suicide prevention nets?