The controversial video app’s future is in jeopardy in the United States, but what about here in the UK?
politicians in the United States voted 352 to 65 in favour of a bill that would require ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, to find a non-Chinese buyer for the app or face a ban in the country.and has been criticised by the company and campaigners. “This process was secret, and the bill was jammed through for one reason: It’s a ban,” the company said in a statement.
Anti-China hawks in the Republican party have long opposed TikTok because its parent company is based in China, and Donald Trump even tried to ban it in 2020, but in recent weeks that opposition has spread and crystallised into a cross-party consensus.The act was passed by the House of Representatives, but still has to be voted through the Senate and signed off by President Biden .
However, a ban or forced sale could still cause headaches for non-US arms of the app, because videos produced by TikTok users in the US aren’t only shown to viewers in the US, but elsewhere too. “It would now have to figure out how to interoperate with a third-party company, and two apps called ‘TikTok,’” said Professor Chander.
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