President Biden signs law to ban TikTok nationwide unless it is sold
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NPR— The measure was included in a foreign aid package providing support to Ukraine and Israel. TikTok vowed to challenge the law in federal court.
Mashable—President Biden signs TikTok ban bill into law. President Biden has signed the TikTok ban into law, banning it in the U.S. unless it's sold. Critics say it's an attack on free speech.
NBC News—TikTok creators react to Biden signing ban-or-sell law: ‘We don’t want a TikTok ban’. TikTok creators weren’t surprised to hear that President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that could lead to a TikTok ban, but they’re close to unanimous in their belief that the federal government is wrong to push the legislation forward. For almost four years, since July 2020, a potential TikTok ban has been under consideration by members of the federal government. A bipartisan bill to ban TikTok in the U.S. was first proposed in December 2022, and the version that was just signed into law has...
TechCrunch—TikTok ban signed into law by President Biden: How we got here, and what comes next. TikTok faces an uncertain fate in the U.S. once again. A bill including a deadline for TikTok parent company Bytedance to divest within nine months or face a ban on app stores to distribute the app in the U.S., was signed by President Joe Biden on Wednesday as part of broader legislation including military aid […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.