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🚨 US Senate passes bill forcing ByteDance to divest TikTok within 270 days, extendable 90 days. Biden signs, threatens ban. Trump opposed. Deadline nears Jan, coinciding with inauguration. TikTok vows legal fight for 170M users. China opposes. #TikTokBan 📱 pic.twitter.com/I5mKiPP6OB

— East Asia: Stories Together (EAST) (@EASTogether) April 25, 2024

Fact check, @TikTokPolicy — ByteDance and TikTok have REPEATEDLY coordinated with the Chinese government in Beijing.⁰⁰In fact, key leaders at your parent company have senior positions within the Chinese Communist Party. ⬇️⁰⁰But that’s just the tip of the iceberg… (🧵THREAD) https://t.co/sLypDxmQIr pic.twitter.com/6L0u7Cn9ei

— Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (@committeeonccp) March 21, 2024

After you hear all this whining about market access and freedom of speech from the PRC, this graphic is a helpful reminder. pic.twitter.com/NxovYozEuw

— Eric Sayers (@DEricSayers) March 15, 2024

lets not lose vision for word playing.

China did not ban TikTok but has two versions of it.
One for domestic censorship，the other for foreign data collecting and propaganda promoting.

US wants Tiktok be a free platform instead of China‘s controlled misinfo op. https://t.co/l6ldTsL1Te

— 巴丢草 Bad ї ucao (@badiucao) March 15, 2024

U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns: "I think it's very ironic. The Chinese Communist Party is hysterical about the U.S. ban on TikTok and is using the X platform to criticize the United States. But they don't empower their citizens to use X, Instagram, Facebook, Google etc https://t.co/vPmBPJPpVE

— Winston Sterzel (@serpentza) March 14, 2024

China outright bans TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, Gmail, Spotify, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, YouTube, Snapchat, Quora, Slack, Netflix, Tumblr, Vimeo, NY Times, Guardian, Washington Post, Bloomberg, HKFP, the BBC, Reuters, TIME, NBC, CBC, ABC. Explain it! pic.twitter.com/GXO5G4uSJN

— Tom Grundy (@tomgrundy) March 14, 2024

The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act that would give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the US assets of TikTok or face a ban.

The bill passed 352-65, with… pic.twitter.com/kR9qlDRibh

— Byron Wan (@Byron_Wan) March 13, 2024

📍Hey folks—on #TikTok—as an American born in China—I have a few thoughts in this post. First of all, I would NOT ever recommend allowing TikTok to access your contact book 📔 of friends, or let TikTok connect to find your Facebook friends, or add your phone number. TikTok claims… pic.twitter.com/PH7zBXsNXE

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 13, 2024

3) Congresswoman @RepSpanberger knows what’s she’s talking about — she was a former CIA officer. TikTok will always be subject to Chinese data control as long as it is Bytedance owned. https://t.co/EWHCv5cDNU

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 13, 2024

5) Not even using VPN is entirely safe. China wants full control — even traffic via VPNs! pic.twitter.com/gGI9xUSzSw

— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 13, 2024

This needs to be pointed out more: ByteDance is part of the CCP’s military-civil fusion system. It’s possibly the most compelling reason to crack down on ByteDance/ TikTok.

“ByteDance is not just a tech company; it is a cog in China’s vast military machinery.”… pic.twitter.com/PugybUVGCl

— Jimmy Quinn (@james_t_quinn) March 12, 2024

This bill IS about foreign control— that’s why the definition only applies to social media controlled by a foreign adversary. https://t.co/bPjYg78FXU pic.twitter.com/gLUZDCJ2VR

— Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (@committeeonccp) March 12, 2024

BREAKING: @ODNIgov new 2024 Threat Assessment says the Chinese government is using TikTok to meddle in US elections.

“TikTok accounts run by a PRC propaganda arm reportedly targeted candidates from both political parties during the US midterm election cycle in 2022.” (pg. 12) ⬇️ https://t.co/cvCbEqz6xZ

— Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (@committeeonccp) March 11, 2024

The Chinese government banned TikTok in China.

(It also effectively banned Netflix, Google, Facebook, Instagram, GitHub, YouTube & every other U.S. content platform.)

The only reason the CCP is so opposed to a divestiture of TikTok is because it uses it as a political tool. https://t.co/LvyJPeOnpC

— Jacob Helberg (@jacobhelberg) March 10, 2024

This is why they should ban TikTok 😭😡 pic.twitter.com/arkakbvyrP

— @Imraan_k𓃵 (@Imraan_k_G) March 10, 2024

The horse is already inside and become the favorite pet of half the population, that’s why it’s getting ugly https://t.co/jU62c63QqC

— Geoff (@gjh250) March 10, 2024

The TikTok logo as an actual Trojan Horse! 😆 @badiucao with an inventive cartoon appearing in the Australian papers this AM. News of the US Congressional bill to force TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company travels far… pic.twitter.com/afJyNVRc04

— Melissa Chan (@melissakchan) March 10, 2024

TikTok is really scared of the ban this time.

Seems seriously coming.

Look at what happens opening the app today (in US) pic.twitter.com/BOc0EaHxWQ

— Marco Castelli (@macastel3) March 8, 2024

"This bill is not a ban, and it’s not really about @tiktok_us. It’s a choice.

We implore ByteDance to sell Tiktok so that its American users can enjoy their dance videos, their bad lip-synch, everything else that goes with Tiktok." – @CongressmanRaja pic.twitter.com/OV5CLLsDKa

— Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (@committeeonccp) March 6, 2024