We’re closer to a TikTok ban [Crew Review]

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A new bill was introduced by US lawmakers that will force ByteDance to sell TikTok under the threat of being banned.

The icing on the cake? The company will have only six months to do so.

The bill, called “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act”, aims to “protect the national security of the United States from the threat posed by foreign adversary-controlled applications, such as TikTok and any successor application or service and any other application or service developed or provided by ByteDance Ltd. or an entity under the control of ByteDance Ltd.”

In a post, TikTok says the bill is an outright ban of the platform, “no matter how much the authors try to disguise it.” This is what Representative Dan Crenshaw had to say:



A TikTok ban will affect not only individual users but e-commerce businesses as well. The platform is used by e-commerce businesses to promote products and has even partnered with Shopify to make it easier for sellers to make a sale without users necessarily going out of the app. In fact, this partnership has been expanded to the UK.

TikTok claims that the bill is an offense to the First Amendment and denies it shares user data with the Chinese government.

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Most sellers immediately got ungated, while others reported having the same issue occur again.

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