Senate passes bill to TikTok: The Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that could compel ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, to sell the platform or face a US ban.
What is this title? Passed bill to TikTok? It’s a member of the executive branch now?
TikTok ban in US is in motion as Senate passes bill to [ban] TikTok
Does this make sense?
That does but just bad editing on publisher’s part to go to press as is. So downvote it gets.
Even for a lazy writer, that’s a bad title. Makes me wonder if they use LLMs for their content.
I find it ironic that TikTok is already banned in its country of origin. (By banned, I mean isolated from the rest of the world, has different rules, and is named something else)
Yup. China is dystopian and I feel sorry for those that don’t get that yet
It already does in the US as well…
Now China will have to pay for all of its American social media data instead of getting some of it for free. That’ll show 'em.
Can someone from the US explain , like I’m a 2 year old, how it is possible to pass a piece of legislation as part of a completely unrelated piece?
I.e. If they wanted to not block TikTok would they have had to block the whole bill from passing , so no aid?
They’re called [Riders,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider_(legislation\)) and it is to convince on-the-fence officials to support a bill by including extra measures they’re likelier to support.
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine, poison, a few crayons, and a spoonful of salt, and a spoon go down. Then they’d call it the Protecting Mouths With Forks Act or something.
Send help.
US Federal Law does NOT require that bills only deal with a single issue. So, a single bill could send aid to Ukraine, outlaw hats and declare Tuesday, “puppy kicking day”. And that would be fully within the US Constitutional method for passing Federal laws. All that matters is that the exact same text is passed in both The House of Representatives and The Senate and is then signed by The President. There’s a whole bunch of other stuff around it (veto process, and filibuster), but the ELI5 version is both houses of Congress pass the same bill and the President signs it and thus it becomes US Federal Law.
There will, of course, be a whole other process around the law being challenged in the Courts. ByteDance will undoubtedly challenge the TikTok ban in Court. And that will take years to fully wind it’s way through the system. And the courts may issue an injunction, preventing the law from being enforced, until the decision is made. Basically saying, “nope Federal Government, you cannot enforce this until we say so”. Personally, I would expect that in this case. So, don’t expect TikTok to leave the US any time soon. Note that, this can be done to part of a law (again, I would expect this) and not the whole law at once. So, this won’t imperil US aid to Ukraine, Israel or Taiwan. It just means that we’re likely to see the bounds of US Federal Government power tested a bit. Does the US Federal Government have the power to unilaterally kick a company out of the US? I’d bet on “yes”, especially with the ties to national security. But, I could easily lose that bet.
