What will happen to TikTok if the U.S. bans the app?

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The House of Representatives passed a bill that could ban TikTok if the popular app does not separate from its Chinese parent company ByteDance. The vote was bipartisan and passed in a landslide even after millions of users spoke out against the ban. NBC’s Savannah Sellers reports in this week’s Sunday Focus.

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50 COMMENTS

  1. If Tik Tok is a good media, I challenge Tik Tok trusting bloggers to post “PROUD of One Child Policy! Long Live PRC!” A way giving more credit to PRC via Tik Tok!

  2. There are literally children starving and an increase in the homeless population, foreign entities can own land, but let’s focus on banning tik tok… 🙄

  3. It's okay for the United States government to spy on its own people, but they get upset when our favorite food and hobbies are known by the Chinese
    Also, if they are going to ban tick tock- there needs to be hundreds of millions of dollars refunded to small creators like myself who have invested personally thousands of dollars into my TikTok account which would be for nothing if I lost the app

  4. I fully believe that TikTok is a tool used by the Chinese govt to dumb down America’s kids and set us back by shortening our attention spans. Ban it! 🇺🇸🦅

  5. Tic Tok and they need to look at door dash they cut our pay from $2.50 to $2.00 a delivery and EVERYTHING IS GOING UP IN PRICE!!!! COME ON USA BUT ITS BIDEN AND HARRIS BOOO I BELIEVE ITS THEM!!! I HATE MY GOVERNMENT AND THEY ONLY CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES!!!!!!!¡!!!!!

  6. TikTok’s parent company ByteDance was founded by Chinese entrepreneurs. ByteDance is a privately-held global company, with roughly 60 percent owned by global institutional investors (such as Blackrock, General Atlantic, and Susquehanna International Group), 20 percent owned by the company’s founders, and 20 percent owned by its employees—including over 7,000 Americans. It is not owned or controlled by any government or state entity!

  7. Look there's so many different social media platforms you know another one's going to pop up my issue is even if there is a legitimate reason to ban it we got people who will misuse that because we already got freedom of speech issues even though we have a First Amendment right to free speech we gotta deal with our socialist / communist problem maybe what we should have did is actually reinforce the Constitution meaning that they can't pass laws that are in antithesis of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights that's what we really need

  8. Facebook has been known to influence elections and sell data to ouysiders and no ban on them bc the US spies thru tuem too — the fact that tiktok has no spy history and the US can only say "potentially" is a red flag.

  9. There was a reason why Zukerberg bent the knee to congress and appologized for something no one has control over the other week. It's stupid to think that facebook is responsible for people being stupid.

  10. The fact that they passed this bill so fast is what people should be concerned about. Go google whats happening in Paris right now. FUnny how i can only find it on tiktok and not on any american app.

  11. So the datas from the rest of the world is safer in the hands of the yankies ?

    How many bullets have the ccp shot outside of their jurisdiction the last 50 years ? How many bombs have the US dropped in the 22st century alone.

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