The House of Representatives voted 360-58 to pass a massive foreign aid package that includes a ban on TikTok if Chinese company ByteDance doesn’t divest from the app within a year.
The TikTok ban has been discussed for months due to the app’s massive collection of data that can be accessed by the Chinese Communist Party at will.
This means that TikTok is a national security liability and has already been banned from federal devices for months.
ByteDance is expected to fight this legislation meaning that there could be a years-long court battle ahead before TikTok is banned or ByteDance is forced to sell to a non-Chinese company.
Furthermore, ByteDance has spent millions to campaign against the ban, and without the ban being inserted into the larger aid package it seems likely that it would never have happened.
This story is far from over and will likely play out over the years. The interesting part of this is that both Republicans and Democrats supported banning TikTok, which raises questions about why a historically ineffectual Congress suddenly decided to come together on what is otherwise a niche legislative issue.
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