USA: House panel advances bill that could ban TikTok
The bill instructs Biden to impose penalties, including a possible ban, if the administration finds TikTok knowingly transferred TikTok user data to "any foreign person" associated with the Chinese government. The American Civil Liberties Union said the bill would violate free speech rights. One bill passing out of one committee is far from a U.S. TikTok ban becoming federal law. But momentum is on TikTok opponents' side, the company has a reason to be spooked.