President Biden has now formally signed the invoice which means TikTok proprietor ByteDance should promote the platform, or face being banned within the US from 2025.
As anticipated following the Senate’s passing of the mix invoice relating to funding for Ukraine and the potential ban of TikTok, President Biden has now signed the measure into legislation. From at the moment, ByteDance has 9 months during which to promote or divest itself of TikTok, though there could also be an extra three-month extension if a deal is being negotiated.
The difficulty for the US authorities is that TikTok is owned by ByteDance, which is a Chinese language firm. Senators have cautioned that as such, ByteDance might present US customers’ personal information to China’s authorities.
“It is clearly a disappointing second, but it surely doesn’t should be a defining one,” he says within the video. “That is truly ironic, as a result of the liberty of expression on TikTok displays the identical American values that make the USA a beacon of freedom.
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