By an overwhelming margin, the House on Wednesday passed legislation that would require TikTok to separate from its China-based ownership or face a potential ban in the U.S. The vote was 352-65, with one member voting present and 14 members not voting. Fifteen Republicans and 50 Democrats opposed the measure. Republicans voting against the bill […]
TikTok spent days directing its users to call their Members of Congress but that effort seems to have failed, at least so far. Today a bill that would force the Chinese owner of TikTok to either sell it or face a ban in the US passed the House with strong bipartisan support. Republican leaders fast-tracked […]
The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to pass bipartisan legislation on the Chinese-owed app TikTok. Reps. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., introduced the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act on March 5. Gallagher and Krishnamoorthi are the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the […]
A broad coalition of conservative organizations is urging the House to proceed with its current schedule to bring to the Floor and pass the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (H.R. 7521), which would require that TikTok divest from the Chinese Communist Party, if it is to continue operations in the United States. […]
As has been much discussed this week, the House Energy & Commerce Committee voted unanimously to pass a bill sponsored by Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.) titled the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. According to the Washington Examiner, “the bill would make it unlawful for app stores to host social media applications […]
The House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously voted to advance a bill to the House floor that could eventually ban TikTok. The bill from the Commerce Committee would ban TikTok from U.S. app stores unless it spun off from its China-linked parent company, ByteDance within five months. Millions of […]
The social media video-sharing app TikTok issued a panicky statement on Tuesday in response to a bill that is gaining momentum in the House to ban it in the U.S. TikTok issued a statement aimed at users and lawmakers that made it clear the proposed legislation would completely outlaw it in the country. The Beijing-owned […]
In case you just can’t get enough of Joy Reid with an hour each weeknight on MSNBC, you can catch her sharing her wild and loose opinions on TikTok. Recently, she pounced on remarks by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., supporting the Alabama court decision that frozen embryos are children, because “we need more kids.” Our […]
A little under two years after Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz doxed Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik, the two had a sit-down interview that went about as well as you might expect. For one, even though the interview was at an outdoor table at a coffee shop, Lorenz was wearing a mask. In February […]
Good day, West Coast, Messed Coast™ chaos tourists and voyeurs. And what a chaotic week it has been. TikTok is leading an invasion of California. Gavin Newsom continues his callow, thin-skinned, gun-grabbing ways. Antisemitic chants are turning up in Washington schools. Oregon pushes a bill to codify porn in the classroom. Rep. Barbara Lee […]
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