House panel unanimously approves bill that could ban TikTok | CNN Business
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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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12876226

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.

    • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      573·
      8 months ago

      Not to mention this does nothing. ByteDance could easily just stand up a shell company with a puppet in another country and have it become the owner. Our lawmakers and regulators are fucking morons.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
        63·
        8 months ago

        They aren’t. They’re just well paid. Meta and Alphabet don’t want competition.

    • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      305·
      8 months ago

      North American politics don’t work like that. We all know there are gigantics gaps in the reasoning behind everything. Domestic companies do the same damn thing, but a part of that money has already gone into someone’s pocket, because lobbying is a huge part of the decision making process