The US Senate approved the bill, which after being signed by President Joe Biden will force the Chinese company ByteDance to sell TikTok within nine months unless you want the platform to be banned in the US, where it has about 170 million users.

For now, ByteDance did not respond to the approval of this projectwhich has already received House approval, as have three others approved last night in the Senate, including the expected aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.

But a few days ago, TikTok’s parent company said that if it were banned in the US, not only would the free expression rights of 170 million Americans be “trampled”, The platform will stop bringing $24 billion a year into the country’s economy.

ByteDance also stated that it is not a Chinese company because 60% of its capital is in the hands of international investment companies. and denied that TikTok is “an agent of China or other countries” in the United States, according to the bill’s sponsors, who consider it a national security risk that the data of millions of American users falling into the hands of China.

The initiative was approved by Senate: 79 votes in favor and 18 against. and in the House of Representatives the vote was 360 yeas and 58 nays.

“We’re giving people a choice to improve this platform and give Americans the opportunity to experience it. our foreign opponents do not discredit them,” Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell, chairwoman of the Senate Commerce Committee, said last week.

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President Biden has repeatedly stated his intention sign the law as soon as it arrives in your office.

The bill, an updated version of a bill passed in the House of Representatives in March, passed on Tuesday, according to CNN. gives TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance 270 days to sell the platform.

Failure to do so will have important consequences: TikTok will be banned from US app stores and in the “internet hosting services” that support it.

It will mean limit downloading of new applications and interaction with its content.

CNN notes that if Biden signs the bill this week, The deadline for sale is January 2025. However, under the law, it could extend the deadline by another 90 days if it determines there is progress on the sale, potentially giving TikTok up to a year before it faces a ban.

(EFE)