{"id":13699,"date":"2024-03-13T15:37:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/us-house-passes-bill-cracking-down-on-tiktok\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T15:37:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T14:37:17","slug":"us-house-passes-bill-cracking-down-on-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/us-house-passes-bill-cracking-down-on-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"US House passes bill cracking down on TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill gives owner ByteDance 165 days to divest from TikTok, and if it does not app stores would be legally barred from hosting it<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2024\/mar\/13\/tiktok-ban-vote-trump-biden-election-campaign-updates\">US politics \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would require the TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the social media platform or face a total ban in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was a landslide, with 352 Congress members voting in favor and only 65 against. The bill, which was fast-tracked to a vote after being unanimously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/mar\/07\/tiktok-users-protest-congress-potential-ban\">approved<\/a> by a committee last week, gives China-based ByteDance 165 days to divest from TikTok. If it did not, app stores including the Apple App store and Google Play would be legally barred from hosting TikTok or providing web hosting services to ByteDance-controlled applications.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/mar\/13\/house-passes-tiktok-bill-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2e12d4af5d04124d72bfa03b19ee1312f208d3e2\/0_87_5533_3320\/master\/5533.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=abe9673d09006bfa50e9995bfc73c54f\" title=\"US House passes bill cracking down on TikTok\" \/>Bill gives owner ByteDance 165 days to divest from TikTok, and if it does not app stores would be legally barred from hosting it<br \/>\nUS politics \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nThe House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would require the TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the social media platform or face a total ban in the United States.<br \/>\nThe vote was a landslide, with 352 Congress members voting in favor and only 65 against. The bill, which was fast-tracked to a vote after being unanimously approved by a committee last week, gives China-based ByteDance 165 days to divest from TikTok. If it did not, app stores including the Apple App store and Google Play would be legally barred from hosting TikTok or providing web hosting services to ByteDance-controlled applications. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill gives owner ByteDance 165 days to divest from TikTok, and if it does not app stores would be legally barred from hosting it US politics \u2013 latest updates The House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would require the TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the social media platform or face a total &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/us-house-passes-bill-cracking-down-on-tiktok\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US House passes bill cracking down on TikTok<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}