On Tuesday local time, the US Senate passed a bill involving TikTok. According to public information, the Senate passed the bill with 79 votes in favor and 18 against, and sent it to the desk of US President Biden.
The TikTok side issued a statement on the entry into force of the ban, saying: "This unconstitutional law is a TikTok ban, and we will challenge it in court. We believe that the facts and laws are clearly on our side, and we will win in the end."
Public data shows that TikTok has 170 million users in the United States, which is one of the important markets of TikTok Shop. On March 13 local time, the US House of Representatives voted 352 in favor and 65 against, requiring Byte Bounce to divest the assets of TikTok, a short video application, in the US within about six months, or face a ban.
The resolution of legal issues is an important link in the implementation of the TikTok ban. On April 8, US time, Maria Cantwell, the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee and the Democratic senator from Washington State, told the media on Capitol Hill that the House version of the bill would not pass the legal review, and the House bill "could be better".
Maria Cantwell mentioned the idea of extending the deadline to one year. In her opinion, the Senate may still accept the House bill, but the Senate hopes that the bill has a better legal basis. So far, Schumer has not made a public and clear statement on the progress of TikTok legislation, and only said that he is considering this legislation with the chairman of the relevant committee.
Nadine Farid Johnson, policy director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, said that the long-standing jurisprudence of the Supreme Court protected the First Amendment right of Americans to obtain information, ideas and media from abroad. The adoption of a bill prohibiting TikTok would violate this right and would not bring real rewards.
At the press conference on April 24, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin responded to the TikTok ban, saying, "My colleagues and I, as well as the spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce of China, have previously clarified China's principled position on the adoption of the TikTok related bill by the US Congress". On March 14, after the US House of Representatives voted to pass the ban bill, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Commerce of China made relevant responses.
Wang Wenbin said that the bill passed by the United States House of Representatives puts the United States on the opposite side of the principle of fair competition and international economic and trade rules. If the so-called "national security" reason can be used to arbitrarily suppress outstanding enterprises in other countries, there is no fairness and justice. Seeing others' good things, we should try every means to take them as our own, which is totally robber logic.
"TikTok is fully registered in accordance with the laws of the United States, operates legally and complies with regulations, and is subject to the supervision of the United States. However, the United States has tried every means to use national power to suppress it, not only to implement prohibitions, but even to force divestiture. It is really ironic that a country boasting freedom of speech and claiming to be a free market economy would not hesitate to use national power to suppress certain enterprises." Wang Wenbin said.
(This article is from First Finance)
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