The House approved the bill by a vote of 360 to 58 on Saturday. The Senate will now consider it, and a vote on it may be held in the upcoming days. In the past, President Joe Biden declared that he would sign the TikTok legislation.TikTok is accused of posing a national security concern by numerous US senators from both the Democratic and Republican parties and the Biden administration due to China’s potential to force the firm to provide the data of its 170 million US users.
The move to incorporate TikTok into a more extensive foreign aid package could expedite the possibility of a ban following the Senate’s inaction on a previous bill.
“It is regrettable that the House of Representatives is once again ramming through a ban bill that would violate the free speech rights of 170 million Americans under the guise of crucial foreign and humanitarian assistance,” a statement from TikTok read.
The initial plan, which eventually stalled in the Senate, was challenged by TikTok in February because it would “censor millions of Americans.” It had previously claimed that Montana’s state ban on TikTok, enacted last year, violated the First Amendment.
For reasons related to free expression, the American Civil Liberties Union rejected the House bill TikTok maintains that it has never shared and never will share US data.
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