A new bill would ban the TikTok social media app in the United States unless its Chinese-owned parent company divests.
The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act would ban app stores from making TikTok available and bar U.S.-based web hosting services in the United States from hosting other applications created by TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance.
The legal mechanism used to do this would be Title 10 of the United States Code, which Congress would leverage to list ByteDance as being subject to the control of a foreign adversary.
The bill was introduced to the House on March 5 by 19 members of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including Chair Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.)….
