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American elected officials announced this Thursday, March 7, their desire to pass a law in the coming days to ban the Chinese social network TikTok, unless the platform cuts its ties with its parent company, ByteDance and more broadly with China.
A commission bringing together ten Republicans and ten Democrats from the House of Representatives presented a bill which, if adopted, would give ByteDance 165 days to sell the platform. Beyond that, it would be illegal for app stores to make it available for download.
TikTok puts pressure on elected officials
The bill was unanimously adopted this Thursday by the parliamentary committee in charge of trade and must now be voted on by all representatives. To be definitively adopted, it will then have to pass through the Senate, then be promulgated by Joe Biden.
But TikTok intends to do everything to prevent such a scenario. Earlier this week, millions of American users of the Chinese platform Tiktok received a notification to contact their local elected official. Several of them have already been called: “Members of Congress are inundated with calls from angry voters,” reports the American press.
The social network TikTok has been in the spotlight for several months now. And the idea of banning it is far from new. It was notably mentioned in 2020 by Donald Trump, before being scrapped by Joe Biden. But since then, the alerts have multiplied.
