Bipartisan Legislation Seeks to Ban ‘CCP Puppet Company’ TikTok From US

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is seeking to ban social media giant TikTok from operating in the United States. The effort follows extensive testimony from U.S. intelligence leaders that the app poses a threat to national security.
Legislation seeking to ban the app was introduced in both houses of Congress on Dec. 13 by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.).
The lawmakers condemned TikTok’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) through its parent company, ByteDance, and said the company was collecting Americans’ data for the communist regime.
“The federal government has yet to take a single meaningful action to protect American users from the threat of TikTok,” Rubio said. “This isn’t about creative videos, this is about an app that is collecting data on tens of millions of American children and adults every day….}