When is a ban not a ban? When the US House Commerce Committee votes 50-0 to approve a bill saying that TikTok owner ByteDance must sell the company within 180 days or lose access to the US market. The bill will now proceed to the House & the Senate before old-man-Biden could then sign it into law, but it's a large step forward in the US' persistent battle with what they believe to be a front for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The bill isn't TikTok specific either, although it does call out ByteDance as an example, meaning that the US could effectively force the sale/ban of any application in the future should they deem them as being owned by a "foreign adversary". TikTok aren't super happy with this and asked their users to share their displeasure with their local reps, which has led to many phones ringing non-stop since the bill was announced on Tuesday. They're calling it a ban, anyone that endorsed the bill is saying it's not a ban if you sell. Tomatoes, tomatoes champ.
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