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TikTok<\/a> on Sunday repeated its free-speech concerns about a bill passed by the House of Representatives that would ban the popular social media app in the U.S. if Chinese owner ByteDance<\/a> did not sell its stake within a year.
The House passed the legislation on Saturday by a margin of 360 to 58. It now moves to the Senate where it could be taken up for a vote in the coming days. President Joe Biden has previously said he would sign the legislation on TikTok.<\/p>\n
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Many U.S. lawmakers from both the Republican and Democratic parties and the Biden administration say TikTok poses national security<\/a> risks because China<\/a> could compel the company to share the data of its 170 million U.S. users. <\/p>\n

The step to include TikTok in a broader foreign aid package may fast-track the timeline on a potential ban after an earlier separate bill stalled in the Senate.<\/p>\n

“It is unfortunate that the House of Representatives is using the cover of important foreign and humanitarian assistance to once again jam through a ban bill that would trample the free speech<\/a> rights of 170 million Americans,” TikTok said in a statement.<\/p>\n

TikTok in February had criticized the original bill that ultimately stalled in the Senate, saying that it would “censor millions of Americans.” It had similarly argued that a state ban on TikTok in Montana passed last year was a violation of the First Amendment. <\/p>\n

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The American Civil Liberties Union opposed the House bill on free speech grounds. TikTok insists it has never shared U.S. data and never would.<\/p>\n

Democratic Senator Mark Warner, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on Sunday that TikTok could be used as a propaganda tool by the Chinese government, noting that “many young people” use TikTok to get news.<\/p>\n

“The idea that we would give the Communist Party this much of a propaganda tool as well as the ability to scrape 170 million Americans’ personal data, it is a national security risk,” he told CBS News.<\/p>\n

The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, a free speech group, said the latest bill had “no real pay-off” because China and other U.S. rivals could still buy Americans’ data from brokers in the open market and engage in disinformation campaigns using U.S.-based social media platforms.<\/p>\n

Some Democrats have also raised free speech concerns over a ban and instead asked for stronger data privacy legislation. <\/p>\n

Democratic Representative Ro Khanna told ABC News on Sunday that he felt a TikTok ban may not survive legal scrutiny in courts, citing the Constitution’s free speech protections.<\/p>\n

The House voted on March 13 to give ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets of TikTok or face a ban. <\/p>\n

The legislation passed on Saturday gives a nine-month deadline that could be extended by three months if the president was to determine progress toward a sale.<\/p>\n

Maria Cantwell, the Senate Commerce Committee chair, expressed support for the latest bill. She had earlier asked the House to revise some details in the March 13 bill.<\/p>\n

TikTok was also a topic of conversation in a call between Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this month. Biden raised concerns about the app’s ownership.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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