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The No TikTok on Government Devices Act (S. 3455) was originally introduced in 2020 by Senator Josh Hawley (R - MO) and passed the United States Senate by unanimous consent on August 6, 2020. [3] The bill (S. 1143) was reintroduced on April 15, 2021, by Senator Hawley and it passed the Senate by unanimous consent again on December 14, 2022.
[81] Lobbying group NetChoice argued that the ban is an unconstitutional bill of attainder and also violates the freedom of speech clause of the First Amendment. [82] Hours after the bill was signed into law, five TikTok creators filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Montana against the state.
TikTok is already banned in India, which was one of the app's largest markets before it was outlawed in June 2020. It is also blocked in Iran, Nepal, Afghanistan and Somalia. The UK government and ...
On Wednesday, President Biden signed the TikTok bill into law. The measure was tied to $95.3 billion emergency aid to … Here’s what the new law means for users of the popular short-form video app.
The Senate approval of the TikTok ban bill was tied to a emergency foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The Senate, by a 79-18 vote, OK’d the bundled legislation after the House passed ...
The battle to ban TikTok is escalating. A bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance to divest the popular social media company passed a crucial vote Thursday, as the company sought ...
TikTok, et al. v. Garland is a lawsuit brought by social media company TikTok against the United States government.Chinese internet technology company ByteDance and its subsidiary TikTok allege that the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, an act of Congress that bans certain apps unless sold by their owners, violates the First Amendment by imposing an ...
House lawmakers voted to advance a bill that would ban TikTok from US app stores unless the social media platform’s parent, ByteDance, divests the company.