Montana will vote on Friday to ban the TikTok platform through a law that may be difficult to enforce, but it is Pressure is mounting in the US against the popular video network of Chinese group ByteDance.
The House of Representatives of this state located in the northwest of the country, with a Republican majority, On Thursday, he had 60 votes in favor and 39 against SB419, which “bans TikTok in the state of Montana.”
The Senate will vote on that bill on Friday, though The Senate had already approved it last month. Once ratified by the Governor, This shall enter into force on January 1, 2024.
“It’s time to stand up to the Chinese and ban TikTok”Representative Brandon Lear said. He added that China “wants our data and our intellectual property”.
Lear also said it’s a dangerous application for “Health and safety, especially the little ones.”
From Montana to the White House, Democratic and Republican lawmakers accuse her The video platform that serves the Chinese government to spy and manipulate users.
TikTok, which has long denied the accusations, has been trying to reassure the authorities, to no avail. In reality, The US Congress is also working on various bills to ban it nationwide.
“This law is a flagrant violation of the rights of Montana residents to freedom of expression.” It was a “disastrous precedent,” said Vanessa Pappas, TikTok’s chief operating officer, after the state Senate vote in March.
the law Montana would be excluded from a community of 150 million people in the United States.he added.
On Thursday, according to a spokesperson for the platform, it contacted the authors of the initiative “They themselves have admitted that they have no realistic plan to carry out this attempt to censor American views.”
The draft law prohibits, under penalty of fines, app stores from distributing the app to state users. Apple and Google did not immediately respond to AFP’s requests for comment.
However, the text states that the ban has no effect If TikTok is bought by a company from a country that is “not considered a competitor” From the United States of America.
Several independent experts highlighted this This law faces legal challenges since there are no precedents in the United States.
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