Bills to Ban TikTok Introduced in House, Senate
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., introduced bills last week to ban TikTok, the short-video platform owned by China-based Byte Dance. "Banning [Chinese Communist Party] tied TikTok nationwide is the only route to ending this malicious cybersecurity threat,” Buck said in a press release.
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The two previously passed a law that banned TikTok from federal government-owned phones. The bills tell the president to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to prohibit transactions with ByteDance, and gives him a 30-day deadline to impose the sanctions. Lawmakers last year unveiled legislation that could block certain transactions with TikTok or other social media companies under the influence of China, Russia and several other foreign countries (see 2212130054).