'TikTok ban' House bill passes, moves to Senate despite ByteDance pushback

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'TikTok ban' House bill passes, moves to Senate despite ByteDance pushback
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that could ban TikTok in the U.S. The bill had widespread support from both sides of the aisle but was opposed by some prominent Democrats and Republicans who largely cited free speech concerns., as many lawmakers have said they are still evaluating it and may make changes. President Joe Biden has said he would sign the bill.The bill has faced strong pushback from influencers and other content creators who have said the ban would destroy their businesses.

The app"can be used as a technological weapon by the Chinese Communist Party, its potency was already witnessed in TikTok’s campaign to prevent this legislation from passing," Pence said in a post on X. He added that the government could pass laws to address privacy and data collection concerns, but this legislation does not attempt to do that. He notedthat Americans had a right to receive communist propaganda if they wished to and any attempt to ban TikTok would raise similar issues.Rep. Jeff Jackson, D-N.C., whose account on the platform has 2.5 million followers, voted for the ban. He has not publicly commented on his vote.

"We are united in our concern about the national security threat posed by TikTok — a platform with enormous power to influence and divide Americans whose parent company ByteDance remains legally required to do the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party," Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, said in a joint statement.

Khanna, who represents parts of Silicon Valley, voted no on the bill and said he said he also worried it would hurt creators and could also be a First Amendment violation.Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., who serves as the House minority whip, voted against the bill. It's notable because Jeffries, the top Democrat, supported it.Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.

“I haven’t spoken to Donald Trump about the bill; these were my own conclusions. And I made the vote based on my own conclusions,” she said. “And by reading the bill myself, you know, he has his opinion on the bill and he can voice it. So it doesn’t mean that we’re all robots. We make our own decisions, and mine was to vote no on this bill.”The House passed the bill in a 352-65 vote, with one member voting present. The measure now heads to the Senate.

The campaign posted on TikTok roughly an hour before the House vote was set to begin. The post features a series of screenshots related to special counsel Robert Hur's investigation of the president, set to the Taylor Swift song"All Too Well."

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