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.

  • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
    3·
    9 months ago

    The Federal trollops find hot button issues that hit each generation to keep us all confused and pissed off, and bring up “bills” whenever they want to mess with, and distract us.

    • Healthcare
    • Women’s rights
    • The rights of people of color
    • Immigration and “the border”
    • The rights of little metal objects that go pew pew
    • …and now TikTok to go after the Zoomers

    It’s so pathetically transparent. They’ll make sure these issues are never truly resolved to keep everyone too busy worrying about basic things so we forget how much they continue to fuck up the entire country for their rich betters.