Poll: Should Tiktok be banned? - Tiktok ban to be voted on U.S House panel next month

[c=004A59][b][u]Should Tiktok be banned from use in the United States of America?[/u][/b][/c]

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[big]Tiktok ban to be voted on U.S House panel next month[/big]

[b]• Republican Michael McCaul is drafting a bill that would grant the White House the
authority to outlaw Tiktok over U.S. national security concerns.
• A total of 60 votes are needed in the Senate for the Congress to pass the bill.
• Biden had previously signed legislation that included a ban on federal workers from
downloading Tiktok on government-owned devices.[/b]

[i][c=666666]TikTok ban in the US over national security concerns (Shutterstock)[/c][/i]

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The House Foreign Affairs Committee announced on Friday, January 27 2023 that it will vote
next month on a bill intended to prohibit the use of TikTok, a well-known social media platform in
China, in the United States.

The measure was planned by the panel’s chair Representative Michael McCaul over U.S.
national security concerns, noting that the popular app gives the Chinese government a back
door into American citizens’ phones.

To pass, it would need 60 votes in the Senate and would have to overcome considerable
obstacles in Congress.

The U.S. government's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and
Tiktok have been in talks since 2021 with the aim of achieving a national security agreement to
safeguard the data of U.S. Tiktok users.

Last December 2022, a law that forbade federal employees from accessing or downloading
Tiktok on government-owned devices was signed by President Biden. Tiktok use on
state-owned devices is likewise prohibited in more than 25 U.S. states.

[i][c=666666]Representative Michael McCaul (Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg)[/c][/i]