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The No TikTok on Government Devices Act is a United States federal law that prohibits the use of TikTok on all federal government devices. Originally introduced as a stand-alone bill in 2020, it was signed into law as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 on December 29, 2022, by President Joe Biden .
A December 2022 poll from Rasmussen Reports, surveying 1,000 likely U.S. voters, found that 68% supported proposals to federally ban TikTok, with 43% strongly supporting a ban. Conversely, 24% surveyed were opposed, including 12% who strongly opposed.
Congress voted to set up a path for a TikTok ban in the U.S. within a year, meaning the app will not be banned until after the 2024 election.
The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to approve a bill that would ban TikTok nationwide unless Chinese parent company ByteDance sells its stake in the popular app.
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. Did the TikTok Ban Bill Become a Law? Yes.
The House of Representatives by a wide margin passed a bill that would make it illegal to distribute or host TikTok in the U.S. — effectively blocking it from some 170 million American users ...
In March 2024, the United States House of Representatives passed H.R.7521, which would effectively ban TikTok unless it is divested from ByteDance within 180 days of the bill becoming a law, with U.S. president Joe Biden agreeing to sign it if the bill passed the US Senate.
President Biden signed a bill Wednesday that could lead to a ban on TikTok, but the video-sharing app won’t be cut off from its millions of American users just yet.
PAFACA was introduced as H.R. 7521 during the 118th United States Congress by representatives Mike Gallagher and Raja Krishnamoorthi, following years of various attempts by federal lawmakers to ban TikTok in the country. The bill was passed by the House of Representatives on March 13, 2024.
President Joe Biden signed a bill Wednesday that could lead to a nationwide TikTok ban, escalating a massive threat to the company’s US operations.