It gives TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, six months to sell its stake or the app will be blocked in the United States.

so two weeks before Election Day?

If you listen hard, you can hear VPN providers' eyes turn into dollar signs.

Any app that the US government can’t control will be treated this way. That means any app developed outside of the US or its vassals that gets popular enough among Americans. It’s how the US implements its own soft “Great Firewall”.

Shut that shit down in the US, get US teens to use VPNs set to not-the-USA so they can keep using TikTok, and thus get a whole generation into widespread VPN use.

The bill will now be handed over to US President, Joe Biden, who has said he will sign it into law as soon as it reaches his desk.

If that happens, ByteDance will have to seek approval from Chinese officials to complete a forced sale, which Beijing has vowed to oppose. Analysts say the process could take years.

If any of this is true, this rocks. We're going to see the US government censor an entire app used by millions of Americans

How the fuck did Tiktok become the focus of the third (fourth? Who even knows) red scare?

Literally "China is making me take your treats away" policy

zionists dont have full control of TikTok like they do Meta and Twitter apps, and that just won't stand.

This is so dumb what a dumb fucking joke of a country

Its not just tiktok, far from it but the future is terrifying. I genuinely hate living here

Genocide Joe needs to keep those kids from seeing how much he loves murdering children. At least nothing bad could happen when it's purchased by far-right Trump cabinet members.

I’m assuming a ban would be implemented by removing TikTok from US app stores. If so, there is a workaround on both iOS and Android: create an alternate iCloud or Google account based in a non-US country and download/update TikTok through that account. Once downloaded, your phone will display and let you use apps from multiple regions.

On the Play Store, it’s as easy as switching accounts in the Play Store app (tap your profile in the upper-right). On iOS, it’s more annoying, as you need to fully sign out of iCloud on your phone, which resets things like Apple Pay, but it can be done every few months to pull updates.

May we all perish in the wrathful fires of the Zoomers.

Can't ByteDance just do what other companies do, declare that it's technically based in the Canary Islands and is therefore not Chinese?

Potential? Only the parliamentarian could stop this

Every accusation a confession: all of the things they say China can do, the US Government has a track record of doing. It just says to me that ByteDance and Tik Tok have just been more difficult to wrangle.

Weird, is anyone else hearing the opening to "World Destruction" by Time Zone and featuring Afrika Bambaataa and John Lydon? Just me?

Quote me when this happens:

Biden has publicly stated he'll sign the bill if it reaches his desk. But what will happen is that he'll actually make a big fuss about how he has "heard the voices of the American people, and especially the youth and future generation of this country" and veto the bill instead. Thus, ensuring both the largest voter turnout from young adults in decades and his second term election win

China should do the same thing for every American fast food location in China

They timed the deadline to be after the election but I don’t think it’s going work out for the dems.

death to america

If that happens, ByteDance will have to seek approval from Chinese officials to complete a forced sale, which Beijing has vowed to oppose.

Lol when has Beijing ever said anything.

So we are just switching to doyin yeah?

SHUT IT DOWN

Do you think the dems would cry election interference in the hypothetical scenario that Bytedance went 'okay bye' and closed TikTok in the US before the 6-12 months was up