In a blockbuster vote earlier this week, the U.S. House of Representatives easily passed a bill that would force TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell or the app would be banned in the United States. @theverge explores how the revived bill “jumped suddenly from the pile of forgotten ideas.” Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), who authored the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, told reporters “The fact that we didn’t leak the content of those negotiations to the media, it’s just a function of how serious our members were.” https://flip.it/xzzXQi #Tech#Technology#TikTok#ByteDance#USPolitics
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