U.S. House Committee Passes Bill That Would Ban TikTok in the U.S. If Chinese Parent Company Doesn’t Sell the App
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor With American lawmakers sounding the alarm again over TikTok‘s ties to China’s communist regime, the U.S.
House Energy and Commerce committee unanimously voted to approve a bill that would give China’s ByteDance 165 days to divest its ownership of TikTok — or effectively face a U.S.
ban. The bill, “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” was introduced March 5 by Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.) and Rep.
Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.). If enacted, the bill would block ByteDance-controlled apps, including TikTok, from being available in Apple or Google app stores or on web hosting services in the U.S., unless such an app “severs ties to entities like ByteDance that are subject to the control of a foreign adversary.” It passed Thursday in the House Energy and Commerce committee in a 50-0 vote.
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