Effectively, that was quick. After a Home subcommittee gave its assent to a invoice that might drive the divestment of TikTok or ban it in the US, the Home itself voted within the affirmative, albeit with just a few dozen votes of dissent. Now it’s off to the Senate, the place high-profile assist has already been marshaled. TikTok customers, nonetheless, should not taking the altering political winds — and their penalties — sitting down.
TechCrunch spoke with a number of TikTok customers which might be incensed about, and preventing again towards, the potential ban of TikTok. Many small companies can be impacted by the transfer, in any case.
However whereas the discuss of a attainable ban is getting all of the press, what concerning the potential of TikTok merely being divested from its father or mother firm, ByteDance? That may resolve the US authorities’s points, proper? Effectively, the Chinese language authorities has made noise that it’ll enable no such sale. So, the invoice could have two tracks in it for TikTok, however it may actually simply be a single-issue regulation in observe.
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