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The No TikTok on Government Devices Act was originally introduced in 2020 by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) and passed the United States Senate by unanimous consent on August 6, 2020. [3] The bill ( S. 1143 ) was reintroduced on April 15, 2021, by Senator Hawley and it passed the Senate by unanimous consent again on December 14, 2022.
The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill that could remove TikTok from US app stores. The vote succeeded 352-65, with the majority of nos coming from Democrats on Wednesday.
The legislation requires TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell it within 180 days or risk TikTok being banned from U.S. app stores and web hosting services. House passes bill that ...
In 2020, federal courts blocked an executive order issued by then-President Donald Trump to ban TikTok after the company sued on the grounds that the order violated free speech and due process rights.
A similar TikTok bill had been passed by the House in March, but it stalled in the Senate. In a procedural move, House Republicans this month attached a revised TikTok bill to the foreign aid ...
The bill passed by a 352-65 margin. ... Since 2022, TikTok has been prohibited on government-issued devices. In March 2023, TikTok's CEO promised to put a firewall around U.S. user data, but that ...
In 2020, then-president Donald Trump sought to ban TikTok and Chinese-owned WeChat but was blocked by the courts. In recent days, he has raised concerns about a future ban.
An August 2020 poll from Reuters/Ipsos, surveying 1,349, had 40% supporting Trump's move to ban the app, 30% opposed, and 30% uncertain. [108] A December 2022 poll from Rasmussen Reports, surveying 1,000 likely U.S. voters, found that 68% supported proposals to federally ban TikTok, with 43% strongly supporting a ban. Conversely, 24% surveyed ...