U.S. House votes to require TikTok’s parent company to sell app

Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives have passed a bill that targets Tik Tock the legislation would require the social media sites Chinese owners to sell the platform or be banned in the US the bill now moves to the Senate but there is no guarantee the bill will pass there cbc’s Richard

Madden is following this story for us in Washington and he joins us now with the latest developments Richard this has certainly been moving in the past couple of minutes what more can you tell us about this bill and and why the house brought it forward as well yeah it’s a

Done deal at least in the house with a bill passed by the 2third majority threshold which really shows one of the few issues to unite Republicans and Democrats in the divided Congress is taking on big Tech uh so the bill passed and under it Tik Tok will be banned from

Being downloaded on App Stores in the US unless it divests itself from its Chinese own parent company bite dance within five to 6 months now supporters of this bill say they’re protecting American users of Tik Tok from being spied upon by Chinese intelligence who could in theory access their accounts to

Target them or spread Mass disinformation campaigns to disrupt elections now Tik Tok has denied these allegations and any links to the Chinese government but that didn’t convince lawmakers leading up to this vote they all agreed on his national security threat but there were concerns that this move was too much government overreach

Watch we have given Tik Tock a Clear Choice separate from your parent company bite dance which is beholden to the the CCP and remain operational in the United States or side with the CCP and face the consequences the choice is tick tocks some of us are concerned that there are

First Amendment implications here Americans have the right to view information we don’t need to be protected by the government from information some of us just don’t want the president picking which apps we can put on our phones or which websites that we can visit we don’t think that’s

Appropriate so in the end the house did passed this bill as I noted with that 2/3 majority President Joe Biden has said he would support this bill if Congress approves it so it’s already finished phase one but former president Donald Trump who pushed for a ban in

Office has since done a 180 and is now opposed so Richard with all of this now now passed in the house what is going to happen next year yeah so now that it’s cleared in the house it faces an uncertain fate in the Senate that’s where the bill goes

Next and it’s also where Tik Tok is focusing its lobbying efforts it is a statement moments ago saying it hopes the upper chamber will quote consider the facts and realize its impact to its 170 million users in the us alone along with those content creators that make a

Living off Tik Tok now senators in both parties say they have issues with the text of the house bill and they also question its Effectiveness watch well I still have concerns about nameing a specific company in legislation but it feels like this house bill has momentum Chinese Communist

Party is very accomplished at playing uh whack-a-mole uh for example you could eliminate Tick Tock but they could open it up tomorrow tock tick whatever you want to call it and do the same thing I haven’t come to a final decision as to whether or not it should be banned I’d

Rather see Tik Tock step forward and divest themselves of any Chinese involvement okay so you heard some Senators there because that’s where the focus now moves uh now that this bill has been passed in the house but the bigger issue especially in an election year is that Tik Tok is hugely popular

With voters under 30 and it’s where most of them get their news and information according to studies so some Senators say you don’t win elections by cutting out a large group of young voters who are big fans of the social media app so the drama continues and we’ll wait to

See what happens uh when when this bill hits the floor of the Senate okay Richard thank you for this Richard Madden for us in Washington

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban on TikTok if its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, doesn’t sell it. The bill is likely to hit a roadblock in the Senate, however. 

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