Johnson Votes YES, Calling on TikTok to Divest From the Chinese Communist Party
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) voted to pass legislation requiring TikTok to divest from ByteDance, which answers to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), or risk losing access to American markets. The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act would remove CCP-backed ByteDance apps, including TikTok, from American app stores and web hosting services unless the application severs ties to entities like ByteDance that are subject to control of a foreign adversary.
“TikTok has an important decision to make: remain beholden to the Chinese Communist Party, or retain their user base in America,” said Johnson. “The decision should be simple, yet TikTok’s pushback to the bill gives credence to the thought the platform cares more about the influence of the CCP than operating a safe app in the U.S. I hope the Senate considers the bill soon. In the meantime, millions of Americans will continue to be influenced by the destructive goals of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Johnson recently co-sponsored the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. Johnson has long been a critic of TikTok and ByteDance. In 2022, he introduced the Block the Tok Act to remove TikTok from federal government devices. Later that year, he voted to ban it on federal government devices.
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Oh Dusty, you’re so naive sometimes. Even AOC realizes how dangerous this bill is.
It is kind of weird how all these American billionaires are getting in line and publicly trying to buy it (and it wasn’t really for sale). I don’t know what precedent this sets, but I don’t feel like it is good. If you don’t want your kids on this platform, maybe you as a parent should just parent and make that happen. We are again, putting government in a position to forcefully take something that is privately owned……but as long as it isn’t socialism, it is okay…..sure. How about if the government feels the need to do this, then they should be forced to run it, because we know they don’t spy on their own citizens, that is a 4th amendment constitutional right us American citizens have, right……?
i’m trying to find where milton friedman thought nationalizing foreign companies was a good idea. he advocated pragmatic approaches for capitalist economies to consider when dealing with authoritarian controlled economies. who knew that the foreign countries would someday soon need those pragmatic approaches in dealing with US?