The signature byUS President Joe Biden, this Wednesday, April 24, of a bill that will prohibitTikTokin the country if it is not sold within a year, it leaves a trail of questions about the future of this Chinese application, he assuresCNN.
The legislation, which has already been approved in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, requires, among other things, that the parent company ofTikTok, ByteDance, be dissolved.
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the DemocratMark Warner, said lawmakers recognize that the short video app is used by 170 million Americans, especially young people.
"To those young Americans, I want to say that we hear your concern andwe hope thatTikTok continue under new ownership – US or not – from the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil or France. "It just needs to stop being controlled by an adversary."
The signing of this law has motivated the response of the Chinese company that plans to file a judicial appeal.
"The moment the bill is signed, we will move to court for a legal challenge," he wroteMichael Beckerman, head of public policyTikTok for the Americas, to staff, describing the legislation as "an unprecedented agreement crafted between Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and US President Joe Biden.
"This is the beginning, not the end of this long process,"Beckerman wrote. the same day House lawmakers passed the billTikTok.
According toBBC Mundo, who in a report answers five questions about this law, “the legislation grantsByteDance 9 months to sellTikTokto a U.S. buyer, with an additional three-month grace period before any ban takes effect.”
Hence, "the deadline for a sale to be completed will most likely arrive sometime in 2025, after the winner of the 2024 presidential election takes office. If Trump wins, he could try to prevent the ban from being implemented,” they say from the British network.
Coincidentally,The approval of the new law comes alongside the approval of another law that says that the United States will provide aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan.
The gigantic program of military and economic assistance, whichincludes 95,000 million dollars and which was requested for months by President Joe Biden, has bipartisan support.
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