{"id":14207,"date":"2024-04-24T02:37:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T00:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/senate-passes-bill-banning-tiktok-if-parent-company-does-not-sell-it\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T02:37:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T00:37:37","slug":"senate-passes-bill-banning-tiktok-if-parent-company-does-not-sell-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/senate-passes-bill-banning-tiktok-if-parent-company-does-not-sell-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate passes bill banning TikTok if parent company does not sell it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill gives app owner, ByteDance, a year to divest, and while Biden is expected to sign it, the company plans to fight it<\/p>\n<p>The Senate voted Tuesday to pass a bill that will either ban TikTok or force a sale of the short-form video app, giving its China-based parent company ByteDance up to one year to divest its crown jewel before facing deletion from US app stores.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was a landslide, with 79 senators voting in favor and 18 against. The bill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/apr\/20\/us-house-tiktok-byte-dance\">passed<\/a> in the House on Saturday by a margin of 360 to 58, as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/21\/house-approves-61bn-aid-for-ukraine-what-we-know-so-far-and-what-happens-next\">foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan<\/a>. It will now make its way to the desk of Joe Biden, who has previously said he would sign the legislation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/apr\/23\/senate-passes-bill-banning-tiktok-will-parent-company-sell\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4f882282784c085677edcda7419ea9638aa7ba62\/0_259_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7ef233a53e3dd77bae4795b023ac8746\" title=\"Senate passes bill banning TikTok if parent company does not sell it\" \/>Bill gives app owner, ByteDance, a year to divest, and while Biden is expected to sign it, the company plans to fight it<br \/>\nThe Senate voted Tuesday to pass a bill that will either ban TikTok or force a sale of the short-form video app, giving its China-based parent company ByteDance up to one year to divest its crown jewel before facing deletion from US app stores.<br \/>\nThe vote was a landslide, with 79 senators voting in favor and 18 against. The bill passed in the House on Saturday by a margin of 360 to 58, as part of a foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. It will now make its way to the desk of Joe Biden, who has previously said he would sign the legislation. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill gives app owner, ByteDance, a year to divest, and while Biden is expected to sign it, the company plans to fight it The Senate voted Tuesday to pass a bill that will either ban TikTok or force a sale of the short-form video app, giving its China-based parent company ByteDance up to one year &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/senate-passes-bill-banning-tiktok-if-parent-company-does-not-sell-it\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senate passes bill banning TikTok if parent company does not sell it<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14208,"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\/14207"}],"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=14207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}