The last few months have not been on good terms with the United States government and TikTok. The reason for this is that the application is wanted to be banned in the country. There has been an important development regarding this issue, which is widely discussed in the technology world. So much so that US President Joe Biden signed the bill to ban TikTok. Alright what now?
TikTok is banned in the USA!
USA, Chinese based To ByteDance belonging to TikTok‘Fame USAis concerned that data belonging to its users is being accessed by the Chinese government. For this reason, firstly, the House of Representatives voted to ban the practice, and since the majority voted “yes” in this vote, the bill was accepted.
Subsequently, the bill went to the Senate, the other chamber of the United States Congress, after the House of Representatives. The Senate, one of the two legislative bodies along with the House of Representatives, also adopted this bill in the past hours.
The bill was presented to President Joe Biden after the final decision was made by the House of Representatives and the Senate. In the past minutes, it was announced that Biden signed it. Of course, this was not met with surprise, because he had already stated in his previous statements that he would sign the bill when it came to his desk.
What will happen now?
According to the bill signed by Biden ByteDance, TikTokIf he doesn’t want to get banned, he needs to sell the app to a US-based company. The company was given a period of 9 months for this.
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