TikTok Responds to US Politician Proposals to Ban the App

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TikTok makes a statement after a U.S. Congressional Committee approved advancing a bill to the President that, if signed, could make it easier to ban the social media app. TikTok's statement decries the fast-tracking of the bill and suggests that the free speech rights of its American users would suffer as well as global TikTok users.

TikTok has seen increasing pressure from U.S. Government officials over the last few years as scrutiny of its parent company ByteDance and its relationship with the Chinese government could put the data of Americans at risk. Legislation was recently passed that saw TikTok banned from devices belonging to government officials. Colleges have either banned TikTok from being used on campus willingly, like the University of Mississippi, or are following laws enacted on the state level like the University of Texas at Austin.

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A statement released by a spokesperson for TikTok expresses disappointment in the fast-tracked bill and asserts that TikTok is a U.S. company that abides by U.S. laws. The statement also purports that a ban on TikTok would be a ban on the export of American culture and impacts American free speech values. A further statement given to CNN claims that TikTok would rather see the passage of a national security bill that it crafted with the U.S. Government that it claims would address these concerns.

The bill introduced to U.S. Congress's Foreign Affairs Committee is titled H.R. 1153 or the Deterring America’s Technological Adversaries Act. The bill would give the Biden Administration power to sanction ByteDance if the company was found to have «knowingly transferred TikTok’s user data to any foreign person working for or under the