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Everything TikTok users need to know about a possible ban in the U.S.

Congress has passed a bill that could make it happen. here’s how and when it will affect you..

American officials have been warning for years about the risks of TikTok, but it has been mostly talk and little action.

This week, though, a new law gave the U.S. government the authority to try to ban one of the most popular apps in the country. (The key word is “try.”)

Is this it for TikTok and those of you who use the social app? Should you delete it and walk away from your communities or livelihood on TikTok? Read on.

Possible TikTok ban

President Biden announced he has signed legislation to ban or force a sale of TikTok after Congress passed legislation to ban or force a sale of TikTok, delivering a historic rebuke of the video-sharing platform’s Chinese ownership.

What the bill does: The bill, which saw bipartisan support in the House and Senate , would require the social media app’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance , to sell off the immensely popular app or face a nationwide ban. Here’s what you should know about the potential ban .

What’s next: The provision gives ByteDance roughly nine months to sell the wildly popular app or face a national ban , a deadline Biden could extend the deadline by 90 days. TikTok is expected to challenge the measure , setting up a high-stakes and potentially lengthy legal battle over the app’s fate .

Reactions: TikTok creators say a ban would threaten their lives and livelihoods, while young users of the app previously asked Congress why they aren’t focusing on “bigger problems.”

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People confused after seeing ‘look between x and y’ all over the internet

A new meme has emerged urging people to look at their keyboard.

The internet was a massive mistake and we should all be on it less.

With that in mind, welcome to this particular corner of the internet to learn about the relentlessly tiresome meme which tells you to look between certain keys on your keyboard.

If you spend altogether too much time on social media then you'll have likely noticed your timeline inundated with a torrent of these kind of posts and wondered what the hell this was all about.

Lots of the posts tell you to look between 'h' and 'l' keys which would mean your eyes fall upon 'jk', which means 'just kidding'.

Basically a lot of these memes revolve around someone posting an absolutely braindead take to get your attention and engagement before revealing they were actually joking.

According to indy100 it actually originates from a meme posted almost three years ago on a website we definitely don't recommend you visit.

People have been left confused over the meme. (X)

In May 2021 someone posted a picture of an anime character called Yui and told people to 'look between t and o on your'e key bored' (sic), and of course the keys in between spelled out the character's name.

Since then there's been loads of variations on it including telling you to look between the 'y' and 'i' keys so you'd get 'u', and several less savoury versions which I'm sure you'll encounter in your daily voyages through cyberspace.

Thankfully the good denizens of the internet seem to be treating this confusing trend with the proper amount of derision.

"I feel like I need to log out of Twitter until this keyboard trend dies," one person said and frankly it's hard to disagree.

Some of them are also just really confusing as they tell you to 'look between x and y on your keyboard' but there's loads of keys in between so it's incomprehensible as to what the message is supposed to be.

"Bro I'm so tired of keyboard s**t on my TL," someone else commented, while another encouraged people to 'look between SHUT and THE F**K UP on your keyboard'.

Others pointed out it was really annoying to have to 'do homework to understand wtf is going on' with a meme.

I have to agree with the person saying that 'the keyboard meme is actually killing the TL now'.

We can only hope that this trend collapses and dies out soon, that will be a good day for the internet.

At least until something else similarly inane replaces it.

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What a TikTok Ban in the U.S. Could Mean for You

N o, TikTok will not suddenly disappear from your phone. Nor will you go to jail if you continue using it after it is banned.

After years of attempts to ban the Chinese-owned app , including by former President Donald Trump, a measure to outlaw the popular video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way to President Biden for his signature. The measure gives Beijing-based parent company ByteDance nine months to sell the company, with a possible additional three months if a sale is in progress. If it doesn't, TikTok will be banned.

So what does this mean for you, a TikTok user, or perhaps the parent of a TikTok user? Here are some key questions and answers.

When does the ban go into effect?

The original proposal gave ByteDance just six months to divest from its U.S. subsidiary, negotiations lengthened it to nine. Then, if the sale is already in progress, the company will get another three months to complete it.

So it would be at least a year before a ban goes into effect — but with likely court challenges, this could stretch even longer, perhaps years. TikTok has seen some success with court challenges in the past, but it has never sought to prevent federal legislation from going into effect.

What if I already downloaded it?

TikTok, which is used by more than 170 million Americans , most likely won't disappear from your phone even if an eventual ban does take effect. But it would disappear from Apple and Google's app stores, which means users won't be able to download it. This would also mean that TikTok wouldn't be able to send updates, security patches and bug fixes, and over time the app would likely become unusable — not to mention a security risk.

But surely there are workarounds?

Teenagers are known for circumventing parental controls and bans when it comes to social media, so dodging the U.S. government's ban is certainly not outside the realm of possibilities. For instance, users could try to mask their location using a VPN, or virtual private network, use alternative app stores or even install a foreign SIM card into their phone.

But some tech savvy is required, and it's not clear what will and won't work. More likely, users will migrate to another platform — such as Instagram, which has a TikTok-like feature called Reels, or YouTube, which has incorporated vertical short videos in its feed to try to compete with TikTok. Often, such videos are taken directly from TikTok itself. And popular creators are likely to be found on other platforms as well, so you'll probably be able to see the same stuff.

“The TikTok bill relies heavily on the control that Apple and Google maintain over their smartphone platforms because the bill’s primary mechanism is to direct Apple and Google to stop allowing the TikTok app on their respective app stores,” said Dean Ball, a research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. “Such a mechanism might be much less effective in the world envisioned by many advocates of antitrust and aggressive regulation against the large tech firms.”

Should I be worried about using TikTok?

Lawmakers from both parties — as well as law enforcement and intelligence officials — have long expressed concerns that Chinese authorities could force ByteDance to hand over data on the 170 million Americans who use TikTok. The worry stems from a set of Chinese national security laws that compel organizations to assist with intelligence gathering - which ByteDance would likely be subject to – and other far-reaching ways the country’s authoritarian government exercises control.

Data privacy experts say, though, that the Chinese government could easily get information on Americans in other ways, including through commercial data brokers that sell or rent personal information.

Lawmakers and some administration officials have also expressed concerns that China could - potentially – direct or influence ByteDance to suppress or boost TikTok content that are favorable to its interests. TikTok, for its part, has denied assertions that it could be used as a tool of the Chinese government. The company has also said it has never shared U.S. user data with Chinese authorities and won’t do so if it’s asked.

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What does the possible TikTok ban mean for US-China relations?

TikTok has said it will challenge new US legislation requiring its parent company to sell it under threat of a ban in court.

The law signed this week by US President Joe Biden states that TikTok's Chinese-based parent company ByteDance has 270 days with a possible 90-day extension to divest from the app or face a ban.

"This unconstitutional law is a TikTok ban, and we will challenge it in court. We believe the facts and the law are clearly on our side, and we will ultimately prevail," TikTok said in a statement earlier this week.

Should a legal challenge fail, observers say Chinese authorities are unlikely to allow a sale, a move that could be seen as surrendering to Washington.

Beijing may not want the US action against the popular short-form video platform to set a “bad precedent,” said Alex Capri, a senior lecturer at the National University of Singapore and research fellow at Hinrich Foundation.

“If Beijing capitulates to the US, where does it end?”

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'No plan to sell TikTok'

ByteDance said on a Chinese news app it owns that it "doesn't have any plan to sell TikTok".

Hu Xijin, a former editor-in-chief for the Chinese party-run newspaper Global Times and now a political commentator, said that with 170 million American users, TikTok should "have more guts to fight to the very end and refuse to surrender".

The fight over TikTok has increased tensions between the US and China, with both vowing to protect their interests.

US lawmakers have said that ByteDance's ownership of TikTok is a national security threat, with its algorithm manipulating what US users see.

They have said they are trying to prevent "foreign adversary espionage".

The law followed a string of successes by Washington in curbing the influence of Chinese companies through bans, export controls and forced divestitures, drawing protests from Beijing that the US is bent on suppressing China’s rise through economic coercion.

The US previously forced Beijing Kunlun, a Chinese mobile video game company, to sell the gay dating app Grindr after receiving a federal order.

But TikTok, which was created for the overseas market, is a case Beijing does not want to lose.

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Financial interests might not prevail

National dignity is at stake and could "take precedence over the financial interests of ByteDance investors," including global investors who own 60 per cent of the company, said Gabriel Wildau, managing director of the consulting and advisory firm Teneo.

A legal challenge from the company is expected to lean on First Amendment concerns and could drag on for years. Beijing is betting on a legal win, analysts say.

What to do if TikTok doesn't prevail is likely still being debated with the Chinese leadership, said Dominic Chiu, an analyst with Eurasia Group.

President Xi Jinping, who will have to sign off on whether to permit or prohibit the sale, probably has not made the final decision, Chiu said.

Luckily for Xi, there is no urgency for Beijing to decide, said Sun Yun, director of the China programme at the Washington-based Stimson Center.

“A lot of things could change," she said.

If lawmakers get their wish and a sale does occur, it’s likely to be a challenging and messy process for TikTok, which would have to disentangle its US operations from everything else.

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Will TikTok Be Banned in the U.S.? What the New Law Means for the App’s Users

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TikTok could be banned in the U.S. as soon as January 2025. Here’s what the new law means for users of the popular short-form video app.

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Many American lawmakers are worried that the Chinese communist regime could “weaponize” TikTok, given its control by Beijing-based internet giant ByteDance — and spy on U.S. citizens, as well as military and government personnel. China is one of four countries designated as a “foreign adversary” under U.S. law (alongside North Korea, Russia and Iran). Chinese companies like ByteDance “don’t owe their obligation to their customers, or their shareholders, but they owe it to the PRC [People’s Republic of China] government,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said on the Senate floor Tuesday in arguing for the legislation.

What’s Next for TikTok and ByteDance?

If the effort to overturn the law fails, ByteDance may try to sell its roughly 40% stake in TikTok to an entity or investor group that would meet with U.S. approval. But that move could be blocked by Chinese authorities, who have insisted that any such sale would represent a technology export. In addition, TikTok would be a very expensive property — and that would limit the pool of potential buyers. The app generated $16 billion in U.S. revenue in 2023, valuing the business at up to $150 billion, per a Financial Times report .

Does TikTok Have a First Amendment Case Against the New Law?

It has won using that defense before. An executive order by the Trump administration to force ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban was found unconstitutional by federal courts on First Amendment grounds. Last December, a federal judge blocked Montana’s first-of-its-kind statewide ban of TikTok , ruling that the law likely violated the First Amendment.

Supporters of the TikTok divest-or-ban law argue that it isn’t really a “ban” — and that it doesn’t restrict free speech. The only requirement is that it the app be owned by a company that isn’t subject to the control of an adversarial foreign government. As a precedent, backers point to the 2020 sale of dating app Grindr by Chinese gaming company Beijing Kunlun Tech Co. to a group of U.S.-based investors, a transaction forced by the U.S. government over concerns about the privacy of the app’s users.

“Foreign adversaries use technology for social and political control. There is no individual right to privacy or freedom of speech in these autocracies,” Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), chair of the Senate’s Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, said Tuesday. “U.S. media companies are not allowed to operate in China. In fact, China leads the world in using surveillance and censorship to keep tabs on its own population and to repress dissidence.” Cantwell added: “Governments that respect freedom of speech do not build backdoors into hardware or software, into apps on phones, or into laptops.”

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What TikTok's New Community Guidelines Actually Mean for You

The new guidelines aim to cut down on the number of almond mom and toxic gym bro videos you see.

TikTok is trying to make your For You page a little safer. On April 17, TikTok announced that it's updating its community guidelines to limit hate speech and health misinformation from appearing on your For You page. The new guidelines are expected to go into effect in May.

Once the new guidelines are active, content that's flagged as promoting disordered eating or conspiracy theories shouldn't appear on your For Your page. Accounts that repeatedly share these kinds of content will be harder to find in search as well, TikTok wrote in a press release . TikTok also introduced a Creator Code of Conduct , which holds influencers to a higher standard of behavior as they take part in TikTok's monetization and reward programs.

TikTok's announcement comes at a busy time for the social media platform. The US House of Representatives passed a national security spending bill on April 20 that included language that would force a sale of TikTok from its Chinese parent company ByteDance. A similar measure failed to gain traction in the senate earlier this year, but TikTok and its users were extremely concerned the legislation would effectively ban TikTok . The new bill now faces a senate vote.

Here's what you need to know about TikTok's new community guidelines and For You page eligibility.

TikTok adds safeguards against hate speech, health misinformation

Community guidelines are rules that lay out what content is and isn't allowed on the platform. On TikTok, there's an extra layer to these guidelines that outlines what content is eligible to be recommended across For You feeds.

This is the pop-up message TikTok sent on April 19 about the changes to its community guidelines.

What's new in TikTok's community guidelines are two new standards concerning hate speech and health misinformation. The new standards state that content flagged as promoting these things, like videos about disordered eating and conspiracy theories, won't be eligible to appear in TikTok users' For You feeds.

TikTok gives a few examples of what kind of content they are making ineligible. For health misinformation, content showing or describing "potentially harmful weight management behaviors" is off-limits. Videos from people claiming to be dietitians with dubious credentials promoting intermittent fasting come to mind. Also ineligible is content that promotes weight loss products, rapid weight loss exercise regimens and cosmetic surgery without proper risk warnings.

Under the misinformation category, TikTok states that "conspiracy theories that are unfounded and claim that certain events or situations are carried out by covert or powerful groups, such as 'the government' or a 'secret society'" will be limited from sharing and possibly removed. Other content that's ineligible under this standard are posts that misrepresent results from scientific studies -- like a video claiming a study found vaccines are bad when the study actually found the opposite -- and use repurposed media, like using footage of a concert crowd and claiming it's from a political protest.

By adding these new standards of eligibility, TikTok is trying to help you avoid falling into potentially dangerous rabbit holes. The algorithm that creates your For You page is powerful, so when you interact with a certain kind of content, TikTok sends you more of it. Limiting hate speech and health misinformation on your For You page tries to cut you off from cycles of misinformation before they even start. We'll have to wait until these guidelines are active to see just how effective TikTok is at actually doing this.

Updates to TikTok's warning strike system

In addition to updating its community guidelines, TikTok is rolling out a new feature called Account Check for you to verify your account's standing with TikTok. TikTok has been using a strike system for the past year , where each violation results in a strike, and once you meet a certain number of strikes (depending on the kind of violation), your account is banned.

Account Check should provide more clarity about which, if any, of your videos TikTok has flagged as violating its policies. The feature audits your account and your last 30 posts to highlight any content that's been flagged as violating TikTok's guidelines. You'll also be able to see if you've been restricted from using certain features like direct messaging, live streams and commenting. You will continue to be able to appeal TikTok's decisions.

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Jittleyang Is Trending on TikTok, but Where Does the Slang Term Come From?

Jittleyang and fuhuhluhtoogan may seem like nonsense terms, but they've become very important on TikTok.

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Anyone who has spent a significant amount of time on TikTok is likely aware that the platform gives many slang terms a chance to become much more well-known than they might be otherwise. Sometimes, slang is invented specifically for the platform, but other times, terms are just repurposed or exposed to a larger audience there.

Some users have noticed that jittleyang and fuhuhluhtoogan have become popular on the platform. They have started to wonder what those seemingly nonsensical words might mean. Here's what we know about what each term means and where they come from.

What does jittleyang mean?

Jittleyang originated in Baltimore and seems to have started with a local rapper and barber named Richard Webster , whose rap name is Bippleyipsnipp. He released a song called "City Girl" in 2021 which features him rapping some hard-to-understand lingo, and the song went viral on TikTok at the end of 2023. People found themselves mesmerized by the sounds he was making, even if they didn't always know what they meant.

It's also worth noting that, while it has been adopted as jittleyang, Richard actually spells the term jikkuhlang and published an entire dictionary called Jikkuhlang the Dictionary in 2022 that explains that and other terms.

You might think that a dictionary named after the term would contain its definition, but alas that isn't the case. Richard did define the related term jikkal as "an attention grabber."

Based on the dictionary's explanation, the suffix "yang" can be applied to words to give them an extra flare, but that doesn't necessarily mean they mean anything different. Jittleyang likely refers to something that grabs attention, then, and in the context of his music, that thing seems to usually be a person.

What does fuhuhluhtoogan mean?

While the dictionary did offer some insight into jittleyang, it doesn't have much at all to say about another popular phrase from Richard's work, fuhuhluhtoogan. If you use some context clues as well as the definitions of related words that can be found in the dictionary, you may come to understand that the term essentially means that a person is good in bed.

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There's a new meme involving these words.

Part of the reason both terms have become so popular on TikTok is thanks to a meme that asks whether a person is a jittleyang or a fuhhuhluhtoogan. The trend as it currently exists seems to involve people (usually young people) asking someone in their life this question and filming them as they are totally and utterly baffled by it.

The meme doesn't seem to have much to do with the actual definitions of the words as we understand them. Instead, it seems like the people behind the meme simply heard Richard's song and decided they liked some of the slang he was using. The words are fun to say and hear even if they're completely devoid of any context. Given how popular this meme is on TikTok, it seems that the internet agrees.

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What a TikTok ban in the US could mean for you

The Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban. Here’s what to know.

FILE - A TikTok content creator, sits outside the U.S. Capitol, April 23, 2024, in Washington. TikTok is gearing up for a legal fight against a U.S. law that would force the social media platform to break ties with its China-based parent company or face a ban. A battle in the courts will almost certainly be backed by Chinese authorities as the bitter U.S.-China rivalry threatens the future of a wildly popular way for young Americans to connect online. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, file)

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A TikTok content creator, speaks to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Washington, as Senators prepare to consider legislation that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban, a contentious move by U.S. lawmakers. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Jennifer Gay, a TikTok content creator, sits outside the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Washington as Senators prepare to consider legislation that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban, a contentious move by U.S. lawmakers. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

FILE - The TikTok Inc. building is seen in Culver City, Calif., March 17, 2023. The House has passed legislation Saturday, April 20, 2024, to ban TikTok in the U.S. if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake, sending it to the Senate as part of a larger package of bills that would send aid to Ukraine and Israel. House Republicans’ decision to add the TikTok bill to the foreign aid package fast-tracked the legislation after it had stalled in the Senate. The aid bill is a priority for President Joe Biden that has broad congressional support. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

No, TikTok will not suddenly disappear from your phone. Nor will you go to jail if you continue using it after it is banned.

After years of attempts to ban the Chinese-owned app , including by former President Donald Trump , a measure to outlaw the popular video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way to President Biden for his signature. The measure gives Beijing-based parent company ByteDance nine months to sell the company, with a possible additional three months if a sale is in progress. If it doesn’t, TikTok will be banned.

So what does this mean for you, a TikTok user, or perhaps the parent of a TikTok user? Here are some key questions and answers.

WHEN DOES THE BAN GO INTO EFFECT?

FILE- Activists of Jammu and Kashmir Dogra Front shout slogans against Chinese President Xi Jinping next to a banner showing the logos of TikTok and other Chinese apps banned in India during a protest in Jammu, India, July 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)

WHAT IF I ALREADY DOWNLOADED IT?

TikTok, which is used by more than 170 million Americans, most likely won’t disappear from your phone even if an eventual ban does take effect. But it would disappear from Apple and Google’s app stores, which means users won’t be able to download it. This would also mean that TikTok wouldn’t be able to send updates, security patches and bug fixes, and over time the app would likely become unusable — not to mention a security risk.

BUT SURELY THERE ARE WORKAROUNDS?

Teenagers are known for circumventing parental controls and bans when it comes to social media, so dodging the U.S. government’s ban is certainly not outside the realm of possibilities. For instance, users could try to mask their location using a VPN, or virtual private network, use alternative app stores or even install a foreign SIM card into their phone.

But some tech savvy is required, and it’s not clear what will and won’t work. More likely, users will migrate to another platform — such as Instagram, which has a TikTok-like feature called Reels , or YouTube, which has incorporated vertical short videos in its feed to try to compete with TikTok. Often, such videos are taken directly from TikTok itself. And popular creators are likely to be found on other platforms as well, so you’ll probably be able to see the same stuff.

SHOULD I BE WORRIED ABOUT USING TIKTOK?

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What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet

Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.

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By David McCabe

Reporting from Washington

For decades, the United States has fashioned itself the champion of an open internet , arguing that the web should be largely unregulated and that digital data should flow around the globe unhindered by borders. The government has argued against internet censorship abroad and even funded software that lets people in autocratic states get around online content restrictions.

Now that reputation could take a hit.

The House indicated on Wednesday that it would again try to advance legislation to force a sale of TikTok by its Chinese owner, ByteDance, or institute a first-of-its-kind ban on the app in the United States, this time including it in a package of legislation that is expected to be considered with aid Israel and Ukraine . The language in the package is similar to a stand-alone measure that passed the House last month with bipartisan support, the most significant step yet by Congress to force the sale of a foreign-owned app of TikTok’s size. But it would extend the deadline for ByteDance to sell the app.

Digital rights groups and others around the world have taken notice — and raised the question of how the moves against TikTok contradict the United States’ arguments in favor of an open internet.

A Russian opposition blogger, Aleksandr Gorbunov , posted on social media last month that Russia could use the move to shut down services like YouTube. And digital rights advocates globally are expressing fears of a ripple effect, with the United States providing cover for authoritarians who want to censor the internet.

In March, the Chinese government, which controls its country’s internet, said America had “one way of saying and doing things about the United States, and another way of saying and doing things about other countries,” citing the TikTok legislation.

By targeting TikTok — a social media platform with 170 million U.S. users, many of them sharing dance moves, opining on politics and selling wares — the United States may undermine its decades-long efforts to promote an open and free internet governed by international organizations, not individual countries, digital rights advocates said. The web in recent years has fragmented as authoritarian governments in China and Russia increasingly encroach on their citizens’ internet access.

“It would diminish the U.S.’s standing in promoting internet freedom,” said Juan Carlos Lara, the executive director of Derechos Digitales, a Latin American digital rights group based in Chile. “It would definitely not bolster its own case for promoting a free and secure, stable and interoperable internet.”

The American vision for an open internet dates to the 1990s when President Bill Clinton said the internet should be a “global free-trade zone.” Administrations — including the Biden White House — have struck deals to keep data flowing between the United States and Europe. And the State Department has condemned censorship, including Nigeria’s and Pakistan’s restrictions on access to Twitter, now known as X.

Now, fueled by concerns that TikTok could send data to the Chinese government or act as a conduit for Beijing’s propaganda, the legislation that passed the House last month would require ByteDance to sell TikTok to a buyer that satisfied the U.S. government within six months. If the company doesn’t find a buyer, app stores must stop offering the app for downloads, and web hosting companies couldn’t host TikTok.

The passage of the House bill in March, currently under consideration in the Senate, prompted global angst.

Mr. Gorbunov, a Russian blogger who goes by the handle Stalin_Gulag, wrote on the social media service Telegram in March that a TikTok ban could result in further censorship in his country.

“I don’t think the obvious thing needs to be stated out loud, which is that when Russia blocks YouTube, they’ll justify it with precisely this decision of the United States,” Mr. Gorbunov said.

Mishi Choudhary, a lawyer who founded the New Delhi-based Software Freedom Law Center, said the Indian government would also use a U.S. ban to justify further crackdowns. It has already engaged in internet shutdowns, she said, and it banned TikTok in 2020 over border conflicts with China.

“This gives them good reason to find confidence in their past actions, but also emboldens them to take similar future actions,” she said in an interview.

Mr. Lara of Derechos Digitales noted that countries like Venezuela and Nicaragua had already passed laws that gave the government more control over online content. He said increased government control of the internet was a “tempting idea” that “really risks materializing if such a thing is seen in places like the U.S.”

A forced sale or ban of TikTok could also make it harder for the American government to ask other countries to embrace an internet governed by international organizations, digital rights experts said.

China in particular has built a system of internet censorship, arguing that individual countries should have more power to set the rules of the web. Beijing blocks access to products made by American tech giants, including Google’s search engine, Facebook and Instagram.

Other countries have followed Beijing’s lead. Russia blocks online content. India and Turkey have measures enabling them to demand that social media posts be removed.

Patrick Toomey, the deputy director of the National Security Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, said that if the TikTok measure became law, the “hypocrisy would be inescapable and the dividends to China enormous.” The A.C.L.U. has been one of the most prominent groups opposing the TikTok legislation.

Any U.S. TikTok ban or sale would require officials to explain why the measure was different from efforts in other countries to restrict the flow of digital data inside their borders, said Peter Harrell, previously the National Security Council’s senior director for international economics and competitiveness in the Biden administration. The United States has pushed for data to be able to flow between countries unhindered.

“I’m in favor of action on TikTok here, but we are going to have to scramble to play catch-up on the diplomatic front,” Mr. Harrell said.

Still, other supporters of the legislation rejected the notion that action against TikTok would undermine the United States on internet policy.

An aide to the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, who was not authorized to discuss the legislation publicly, argued that the measure would benefit internet freedom by reducing the risk of China’s influence over TikTok.

In a statement, a spokesman for the National Security Council said the United States “remains committed to an open internet.”

“There is no tension between that commitment and our responsibility to safeguard our national security by preventing the specific threats posed by certain adversaries being able to put at risk Americans’ personal information and manipulate Americans’ discourse,” the spokesman added.

Anton Troianovski contributed reporting from Berlin, and Meaghan Tobin from Taipei, Taiwan.

David McCabe covers tech policy. He joined The Times from Axios in 2019. More about David McCabe

Is TikTok getting banned? What does US bill mean - and could it happen in the UK?

A law that could ban TikTok has passed in the US Senate. Does that actually mean an end to TikTok for Americans? How would it work - and could something similar happen in the UK?

Wednesday 24 April 2024 09:24, UK

The US Senate has voted in favour of legislation that could ban TikTok in the country - if its Chinese owners refuse to sell.

The bill passed by a wide margin in the Senate on 23 April after being voted through in the House of Representatives.

But does the ban actually mean an end to TikTok in the US? How would it work - and could something similar happen in the UK?

What does the bill mean?

The bill gives Chinese company ByteDance nine months to sell its stake in the US version of TikTok - with the possibility of a three-month extension to finalise a deal - or the app will be blocked.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the goal is ending Chinese ownership - not banning TikTok.

But it is unclear if China would approve any sale or if it could go ahead within the timeframe.

There's also a question mark over who would buy it - although if the legislation is passed, it could make the sale price cheaper.

"Somebody would have to actually be ready to shell out the large amount of money that this product and system is worth," said Stanford University researcher Graham Webster, who studies Chinese technology policy and US-China relations.

"But even if somebody has deep enough pockets and is ready to go into negotiating to purchase, this sort of matchmaking on acquisitions is not quick."

What would it mean for users?

The app is used by about 170 million Americans.

If it is banned, it would be removed from app stores including Apple and Google, and blocked on web hosting services.

This would remain in place until ByteDance sold TikTok.

However, it is likely users could still access the app using virtual private networks (VPNs) that bypass restrictions, according to telecom analyst Roger Entner.

Politicians and TikTok creators speak out against the proposed bill on Capitol Hill in Washington DC. Pic: Reuters

Why is the US worried about TikTok?

Both the FBI and Federal Communications Commission have warned that TikTok owner ByteDance could share user data, such as browsing history, location and biometric identifiers, with China's authoritarian government.

TikTok said it has never done that and would not do so if asked.

The worry stems from a set of Chinese national security laws that compel organisations to help with intelligence gathering.

The US director of national intelligence has also said she "cannot rule out" that China would use TikTok to influence US elections.

Senate Commerce Committee chair Maria Cantwell said the move to force TikTok's sale was not aimed at "punishing" ByteDance, TikTok, or other companies.

"Congress is acting to prevent foreign adversaries from conducting espionage, surveillance, maligned operations, harming vulnerable Americans, our servicemen and women, and our US government personnel," she said.

What happens now?

President Joe Biden will now sign the legislation.

He had already committed to signing the bill if it passed, despite his 2024 campaign officially joining TikTok in February.

However, the company will likely launch a legal challenge against the bill, arguing it will deprive the app's 170 million US users of their First Amendment rights, which protect freedom of speech.

The company will need to file any legal challenges within 165 days of the bill being signed by the president.

It could also face opposition from TikTok's content creators who rely on the platform for their income, while China has previously said it would oppose a forced sale of the popular app.

In November, a US judge blocked a Montana state ban on TikTok use after the company sued .

The passage of the bill could also change depending on the outcome of the November election.

Despite Donald Trump vowing to ban the app in 2020 on national security grounds - with his administration brokering a deal that would have had US corporations Oracle and Walmart take a large stake in TikTok - the presidential hopeful no longer supports a ban.

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Could something similar happen in the UK?

TikTok has not faced a nationwide ban in the UK, but in March 2023 it was banned from government devices .

This came after a review found there "could" be a risk to how data and information is used by the app.

Oliver Dowden said while TikTok use was "limited", banning it was good cyber "hygiene".

However, he stressed the government was not advising people against using TikTok in a personal capacity.

He told MPs: "This ban applies to government corporate devices within ministerial and non-ministerial departments, but it will not extend to personal devices for government employees or ministers or the general public.

"That is because, as I have outlined, this is a proportionate move based on a specific risk with government devices."

The cabinet office said the move was taken because TikTok users are required to hand over data including contacts, user content and geolocation data.

What has TikTok said about the US bill?

TikTok urged senators to listen to their constituents before taking any action on the bill, which it said amounted to a ban.

A TikTok spokesperson said: "This process was secret and the bill was jammed through for one reason: It's a ban.

"We are hopeful that the Senate will consider the facts, listen to their constituents, and realise the impact on the economy, seven million small businesses, and the 170 million Americans who use our service."

TikTok has also pointed out that there is no Chinese state ownership within ByteDance or representation on its board.

Crucially, it says it is incorporated outside of China - a fact that seeks to distance TikTok and ByteDance from coming under the influence of the Chinese intelligence law on information-sharing.

President Biden signs law to ban TikTok nationwide unless it is sold

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President Biden has signed a law that gives ByteDance up to a year to fully divest from TikTok, or face a nationwide ban. Kiichiro Sato/AP hide caption

President Biden has signed a law that gives ByteDance up to a year to fully divest from TikTok, or face a nationwide ban.

President Biden on Wednesday signed a law that would ban Chinese-owned TikTok unless it is sold within a year.

It is the most serious threat yet to the video-streaming app's future in the U.S., intensifying America's tech war with China.

Still, the law is not expected to cause any immediate disruption to TikTok, as a forthcoming legal challenge, and various hurdles to selling the app, will most likely cause months of delay.

The measure was tucked into a bill providing foreign aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan. The law stipulates that ByteDance must sell its stake in TikTok in 12 months under the threat of being shut down.

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The move is the culmination of Washington turning the screws on TikTok for years.

Chinese tech giant ByteDance, in 2017, purchased the popular karaoke app Musical.ly and relaunched the service as TikTok. Since then, the app has been under the microscope of national security officials in Washington fearing possible influence by the Chinese government.

Despite concerns in Washington, TikTok has soared. It has become the trendsetter in the world of short-form video and is used by 170 million Americans, which is about half of the country. It is where one-third of young people get their news, according to Pew Research Center.

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Yet lawmakers and the Biden administration argue that as long as TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, it is beholden to the dictates of China's authoritarian regime

"Congress is not acting to punish ByteDance, TikTok or any other individual company," said Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell, who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee, in remarks on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon.

In a video posted to the platform soon after Biden signed the bill, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said he is confident TikTok would win in court, adding that users should not expect issues with the app in the meantime.

"Rest assured, we aren't going anywhere," Chew said. "The facts and the Constitution are on our side and we expect to prevail again."

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If not sold within a year, the law would make it illegal for web-hosting services to support TikTok, and it would force Google and Apple to remove TikTok from app stores — rendering the app unusable with time.

It marks the first time the U.S. has passed a law that could trigger the ban of a social media platform, something that has been condemned by civil liberties groups and constitutional scholars.

TikTok has vowed to take the Biden administration to court, claiming the law would suppress the free speech of millions of Americans.

The sentiment was echoed by Kate Ruane, who runs the Center for Democracy & Technology's Free Expression Project, who said the law is unconstitutional and a blow to free expression in the U.S.

"Congress shouldn't be in the business of banning platforms," Ruane said. "They should be working to enact comprehensive privacy legislation that protects our private data no matter where we choose to engage online."

Selling TikTok won't be so easy

Any company, or set of investors, angling to purchase TikTok would have to receive the blessing of the Chinese government, and officials in Beijing have strongly resisted a forced sell.

In particular, ByteDance owns the engine of TikTok, its hyper-personalized algorithm that pulls people in and keeps them highly engaged with their feed.

Chinese officials have placed content-recommendation algorithms on what is known as an export-control list, meaning the government has additional say over how the technology is ever sold.

Law took TikTok by surprise

By almost any measure, the law passed rapidly, and it caught many inside TikTok off guard, especially because the company had just breathed a sigh of relief.

Last month, the House passed a bill to compel TikTok to find a buyer, or face a nationwide ban, but the effort stalled in the Senate.

The legislation gave TikTok a six-month window to find a buyer, which some senators said was too little time.

A new push, this time attaching the divest-or-be-banned provision to foreign aid, fasted-tracked the proposal. It mirrors last month's attempt, but it extends the sell-by deadline, now giving TikTok nine months to find a buyer, with the option of a three-month extension if a potential acquisition is in play.

Sen. Markey: 'American companies are doing the same thing'

Lawmakers from both parties have argued that TikTok poses a national security risk to Americans, since the Chinese government could use the app to spy on Americans, or influence what U.S. users see on their TikTok feeds, something that has gained new urgency in an election year.

But some have pushed back, including Democratic Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts. He said on the Senate floor on Tuesday that there is "no credible evidence" that TikTok presents a real national security threat just because its parent company is based in China.

National intelligence laws in China would require ByteDance to hand over data on Americans if authorities there sought it, but TikTok says it has never received such a request.

Markey said concerns about digital security, the mental health of young people and data privacy should be addressed with comprehensive legislation encompassing the entire tech industry, not just TikTok.

"TikTok poses a serious risk to the privacy and mental health of our young people," Markey said. "But that problem isn't unique to TikTok and certainly doesn't justify a TikTok ban," he said. "American companies are doing the same thing, too."

What a TikTok ban in the US could mean for you

It would be at least a year before a ban goes into effect — but with likely court challenges, this could stretch even longer, perhaps years..

A TikTok content creator, sits outside the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Washington as Senators prepare to consider legislation that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban, a contentious move by U.S. lawmakers.

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No, TikTok will not suddenly disappear from your phone. Nor will you go to jail if you continue using it after it is banned.

After years of attempts to ban the Chinese-owned app, including by former President Donald Trump, a measure to outlaw the popular video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way to President Biden for his signature. The measure gives Beijing-based parent company ByteDance nine months to sell the company, with a possible additional three months if a sale is in progress. If it doesn’t, TikTok will be banned.

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So what does this mean for you, a TikTok user, or perhaps the parent of a TikTok user? Here are some key questions and answers.

When does the ban go into effect?

What if I already downloaded it?

But surely there are workarounds?

But some tech savvy is required, and it’s not clear what will and won’t work. More likely, users will migrate to another platform — such as Instagram, which has a TikTok-like feature called Reels, or YouTube, which has incorporated vertical short videos in its feed to try to compete with TikTok. Often, such videos are taken directly from TikTok itself. And popular creators are likely to be found on other platforms as well, so you’ll probably be able to see the same stuff.

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US Again Moves to Ban TikTok Via New Bill; What Does This Mean?

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – The US House of Representatives has once again passed a new legislation that may lead to a ban on Chinese short video making platform TikTok in the country.

In March, the House voted in favor of a bill seeking to ban the popular social media platform TikTok that has more than 170 million users in the US.

The legislation in March required TikTok’s parent company Byte Dance to divest its stake in the company within 180 days or six months of the enactment of the law. Failure to meet the deadline would bar TikTok from the Apple and Google app stores.

What makes this new bill different?

Instead of a six-month deadline, China-based Byte Dance will now have about nine months to divest its stake.

This new deadline can be further extended by the White House for 90 days, reports CNN.

Some key lawmakers who earlier expressed skepticism now extended their support for the bill.

Also, the House Republicans have inserted the new TikTok bill into a much larger foreign aid package.

Rather than asking the Senate to vote on the TikTok bill in isolation, “bundling the bill with foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel makes it much harder for lawmakers to oppose the TikTok measure”.

Senators could try to strip out the TikTok legislation but according to policy analysts, it is unlikely. The odds of Senate passage are as high as 80 per cent.

If the Senate votes to approve the TikTok legislation, it will head to President Joe Biden’s approval.

“Biden endorsed the prior version of the TikTok bill, which suggests he may quickly sign any foreign aid package that includes similar language targeting TikTok,” according to the report.

For TikTok, in addition to complying with the legislation, it could also challenge the bill in court.

TikTok CEO, Shou Chew, had said in March to continue fighting, “including exercising our legal rights.”

A court challenge could lead to the legislation being temporarily blocked.

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Are You Raising A Member Of The 'Anxious Generation'? Here's How To Protect Your Kid's Happiness.

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Experts reveal the major keys to improving teens' mental health.

A new bestselling book has labeled teens today “ the Anxious Generation .” If your child is a teen (or will be soon), you’re probably wondering if there’s anything you can do to protect their mental health.

According to the Centers for Disease Control’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey , which analyzed data collected from 2011 to 2021, the number of young people who had experienced “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” rose steadily over those those years, reaching 42% in 2021. Rates were even higher for female students and those who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or queer (the survey did not ask students if they were trans). The number of adolescents who thought about suicide, made a plan for suicide or attempted suicide all rose over that time period, too.

The pandemic certainly took its toll on the mental health of teens (and the rest of us), but some factors predate COVID. Young people are struggling, and adults are trying to figure out why.

Here, experts make the case for what they think is behind the rise in teen’s distress, and recommend what measures parents can take to protect their kids and preserve their happiness.

Limit screen time, especially social media, and maximize interactions in real life.

One hypothesis is that technology is behind the rise in teen’s mental health issues. Today’s teens are digital natives who don’t remember a time before smartphones and social media, and we can all see that there are some big downsides to living online: a lack of authentic connection and the spread of cyberbullying and misinformation.

In “The Anxious Generation,” author Jonathan Haidt makes a compelling case connecting the decline in mental health to technological advances.

Zach Rausch, Haidt’s chief researcher at New York University, explained to HuffPost that the way social media evolved from 2009 to 2015 has made it “particularly harmful to adolescents.”

The addition of “like” and “retweet” buttons in 2009, the advent of front-facing cameras on phones and the launch of visually-oriented platforms like Instagram transformed social media “from a place that allowed you to ‘network’ with your friends into a place where you ‘platformed’ yourself to an audience to be judged,” Rausch said.

Kids naturally look for validation from their peers on social media, and can be left feeling isolated or rejected if they don’t find it.

“These new platforms transformed social relationships in a way that often makes you feel left out and less than others,” Rausch said.

He explained that his research identified four “fundamental harms” of screen time: social deprivation, sleep deprivation, attention fragmentation, and behavioral addiction.

Together, he said, these harms explain the surge in mental health issues among young people who have grown up online. Lack of sleep and in-person connection, as well as the impact of features like endless scrolling, take a toll on kids’ brains.

He noted that not all screen time is the same. Activities like watching a movie with friends, video calling a family member or playing a video game with someone aren’t the concern here. It’s posting and scrolling on apps like TikTok that “sucks kids in and keeps them from real-world interactions that are crucial for their social development.”

Haidt and his team make some pretty ambitious recommendations to keep kids safe from these online dangers, like refusing to give them a phone until age 14, and blocking social media until age 16 — although kids are masters of using platforms without their parents’ knowledge and creating social media accounts that parents don’t know about.

If your kids do have phones, there are still steps you can take to mitigate harm. “The most important thing we can do is help provide our children with structure around their screen time usage,” Rausch said. This might mean no phones at the dinner table, or no phones in bedrooms at night. The trick is that these kind of restrictions work best when they are family-wide agreements, meaning parents have to follow them, too.

You can also help by maximizing the number of in-person interactive experiences your child is having. Family dinners, volunteer work, game nights or other activities will give them opportunities to socialize and grow.

Another opportunity to keep kids productively occupied? Simple, old-fashioned chores. It can be tempting to skip this one because it’s just so hard to implement — nagging is often-involved, as are re-dos for haphazard work. But chores build skills and help kids see that they have a unique role in their family.

KJ Dell’Antonia, author of “ How To Be A Happier Parent ,” told HuffPost: “Busy people are happier, and people who feel needed by the ones they love are happier still. This goes for kids as well as adults. No one likes to feel like a burden, even if it does seem like your kids prefer that you do everything for them. Kids who feel like an important part of the family unit (and not its center) tend to be more successful at school and more positive about themselves in general.”

Implementing more phone-free opportunities for connection — like at mealtimes — can help kids create healthy boundaries with their screens.

Show kids they matter because of who they are, not what they achieve.

Jennifer Wallace, author of “ Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic And What We Can Do About It ,” noted that a 2021 surgeon general’s advisory about teens’ stressors outlined a host of contributing factors. These include: “genetics, relationships to parents and peers, rising achievement pressure, growing use of digital media, limited access to mental health care, and broader stressors such as the worsening economy and fewer social safety nets,” Wallace said.

In other words, while social media may be one cause, there are others — and other opportunities to intervene.

In her book, Wallace explains the concept of “mattering,” which she described to HuffPost as “a universal human need and cornerstone of mental health.” Kids need to know that they are loved and valued, and an integral part of a family and community.

“When they feel like they matter only when they are achieving good marks, look a certain way or drive a certain brand-name car, we set them up for mental health struggles. When these external validations of worth are not met, young people question their worth. They turn against themselves and become anxious, [or] depressed, [or] even self-harm,” Wallace said.

Parents can truly make a difference here and help kids feel like they matter by “minimizing criticism and prioritizing affection.”

Of course you want your kids to do their homework and do well in school. But in pursuit of these goals, sometimes we forget to show our kids that we love them them for who they are, not what they achieve.

Wallace recommends “greeting your kids at least once a day the way the family dog greets you — with total, unabashed joy.”

While we want to support kids’ independence, Wallace makes a case for also teaching kids the importance of interdependence, and that asking for and offering help are important skills, too.

As teens age, she said, parents can remain involved by maintaining healthy, open communication with their child and not assuming that risky, rebellious behaviors are inevitable.

“When parents know about bad behavior and don’t act on it, teens may see that as tacit approval. Rebellious behaviors can change how parents interact with their teens, decreasing how much energy a parent puts into monitoring their teens because they don’t expect to have a positive influence.”

But in addition to enforcing consequences for misbehavior, parents need to help teens figure things out for themselves by acting as consistent, supportive sounding boards.

“Encourage them to share their thoughts, feelings, and experiences with you without fear of judgment. Listen actively and respectfully to what they have to say,” Wallace said.

“Stay involved in your teen’s life by showing genuine interest in their activities, hobbies and friendships and engaging in conversations that matter to them,” she said.

Parents should care for their own psychological needs, too.

Wallace says that, as a result of her research, she believes that “the No. 1 thing we can do to help a struggling child is to make sure the adults in that child’s life are psychologically healthy and that they have solid and reliable sources of support.”

Our own stress and anxiety, she continued, “can make us less attuned to our children’s emotional cues. The risk here is that our kids can misinterpret our stress and impatience: They internalize the belief that something must be wrong with them.”

This doesn’t mean that parents should beat themselves up about times that they snap at their child under pressure. It does mean, however, that parents should value their own mental health and take steps to care for it, whether through exercise, time with friends, support from fellow parents or therapy.

“Kids don’t need parents who take self-sacrifice to the extreme,” Wallace said. What benefits parents will benefit kids, too: “We need to invest in relationships that give us resilience so that we can be a steady support for them.”

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Biden signs a bill that could ban TikTok — after the 2024 election

WASHINGTON — Tucked inside the sprawling $95 billion national security package that President Joe Biden’s signed Wednesday is a provision that could ban TikTok, with an important catch: It won’t happen before the 2024 election.

That means TikTok, which boasts 170 million American users, will remain a force throughout the campaign, providing a platform for candidates to reach predominantly younger voters. An earlier version of the bill could have banned the popular video-sharing app prior to the election, but recent changes mean lawmakers and Biden may not face such an immediate voter backlash.

The new legislation provides nine months for TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell it or face a nationwide prohibition in the United States. The president can grant a one-time extension of 90 days, bringing the timeline to sell to one year, if he certifies that there’s a path to divestiture and “significant progress” toward executing it.

Even without the extension, the earliest a ban could start is January 2025. With the extension, it would be April. And with TikTok threatening legal action, the matter could get tied up in the courts for even longer. It’s a shift from an earlier House-passed bill that included a six-month window that could have triggered a TikTok ban before the November election.

A senior Republican aide said Democrats were responsible for the change. “Senate Democrats had been pretty consistent about wanting to extend that timeline,” the aide said.

The election was “definitely” something “conveniently addressed” by the new deadline, said a Democratic source close to the issue.

Other Democrats are assuring voters that ByteDance would sooner sell TikTok than risk a U.S. ban, a view some experts disagree with .

“TikTok ain’t going away. There is no more capitalistic entity than an organization controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. They’re going to sell it,” said Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., a member of the Armed Services Committee, who faces re-election this fall. “Young people will go on their TikTok tomorrow and they’ll still have it. And then the day after that, they’ll still have it. And the day after that, they’ll still have it,” Kaine said, adding that the only difference is it would be American-owned. “If you like it, you’re going to keep it.”

In endorsing the revised TikTok bill, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said that extending ByteDance’s divestment period — what she called her “recommendation” — would help ensure there is “enough time for a new buyer to get a deal done.”

Other lawmakers who helped negotiate that change, including Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., agreed that the reason they pushed back the deadline was to improve the chances of a sale.

“This gives more time to make the divestment achievable,” said Krishnamoorthi, the top Democrat on the special committee investigating the CCP. “It made a lot of sense. That’s why, as you could tell, we didn’t lose any votes because of the change. In fact, we gained some votes — we went from 352 to 360 votes in the House.”

TikTok gave no indication that it would consider divesting, with a spokesperson saying in a statement: “This unconstitutional law is a TikTok ban, and we will challenge it in court.”

Trump, who tried his own ban, tells 'the young people' to blame Biden

Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, sought to exploit a ban politically.

“Just so everyone knows, especially the young people, Crooked Joe Biden is responsible for banning TikTok,” Trump said on social media. “He is the one pushing it to close … Young people, and lots of others, must remember this on November 5th, ELECTION DAY, when they vote!”

It's a flip-flop for the former president, who signed an executive order in August 2020 to ban TikTok in 45 days if it was not sold. His statement cited “the threat posed” by China with its ability under Chinese law to force the app to grant access to Americans’ data and its potential to manipulate the algorithm to advance Chinese propaganda — the same reasons Congress and Biden favor a ban.

But the executive order was blocked in court, and the app persisted.

“I have every expectation that TikTok will be alive and well, no matter who is president,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. “Donald Trump is obviously trying to turn it into an election issue, but considering he was in favor of banning it, I think his warning is more baloney to use a polite word.”

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said opinions about TikTok and social media won’t “rival choice and democracy and immigration as a voting issue” in the 2024 election.

But Murphy said the political implications cut both ways.

“I am part of a group of pissed-off parents that feel that they’ve lost control of their kids’ lives. There’s undoubtedly another group of kids who are worried that they’re going to lose access to social media in the way that they have it now,” Murphy said. “But those are two very distinct voting groups and if you ignore the perils of social media, maybe you pick up some younger voters, but you lose some parents. So this is one of these issues where you have to see the full picture.”

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., who voted against the TikTok ban over the weekend, said in an interview that there is a need to solve the national security and data concerns associated with the platform but added that banning TikTok would be disastrous for creators, organizers and activists.

“I think this is a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, where we have people, communities that are able to organize, that are able to meet, that are able to find space for their businesses to grow" on TikTok, she said. “We need to actually think about what the consequences of that are, not political consequences alone, but the consequences holistically.”

'The battle lines aren't really clear'

A Republican working on Senate races said being tough on TikTok would have been an easier message to drive home in the campaign before Trump himself came out against the ban.

“It used to be a lot more straightforward,” this person said of how they could message against Democrats who use TikTok to campaign — which, despite Biden's intention to sign the ban legislation, includes his campaign . “But Trump is on the other side now. It makes the whole thing a little murkier. The battle lines aren’t really clear.”

Still, the Republican believes that a looming ban could have a big impact on the campaign trail for Democrats who use TikTok, saying candidates are using it exclusively as a tool to reach voters.

“It’s really clear they think it’s an important tool in their toolbox,” this person said.

In front-line battleground Senate states, Democratic Sens. Sherrod Brown, of Ohio, and Bob Casey, of Pennsylvania, have accounts on the platform. So, too, do Democratic Reps. Ruben Gallego, of Arizona, and Colin Allred, of Texas, both running for Senate seats in competitive races this fall. All four voted in favor of the legislation that included the potential TikTok ban.

Speaking with the Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation” on Sunday, Casey expressed hope the legislation would spur TikTok’s parent company to sell its American assets to a U.S. owner.

“I don’t think any American wants to put our country further at risk when it comes to China,” he said, adding, “I know a lot of Americans rely upon TikTok, and that’s understandable because of the value that it can provide to a small-business owner or others who need TikTok to communicate."

Brown’s campaign declined to comment. Campaigns for Gallego and Allred did not respond to requests for comment.

Biden's campaign said only that the campaign is on TikTok, without saying whether it would remain on it, and noted that the president doesn't have an official account on the platform.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., asked late Tuesday about a potential backlash to the TikTok crackdown, said: “Speaker Johnson put it in bill — the big supplemental bill. We had to get the supplemental bill passed as quickly as possible.”

Some of Biden's allies disagree with him on a TikTok prohibition.

Progressive Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., a Biden campaign surrogate, said he opposes a TikTok ban, citing free speech rights.

“The longer timeline helps marginally in pushing the ban until after the election and the bill, in any case, is likely to get struck down by the courts,” he said. “But rushing to pass it shows the complete disconnect between the Beltway establishment and many Americans.”

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., offered some advice for election candidates navigating a voter backlash to a TikTok ban: “I would tell them to follow their heart but take their brain with them.”

Sahil Kapur is a senior national political reporter for NBC News.

Scott Wong is a senior congressional reporter for NBC News.

Allan Smith is a political reporter for NBC News.

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