According to Reuters 5**, a group of congressmen from both parties in the United States proposed a bill on Tuesday (5th) local time, requiring the Chinese company ByteDance to divest the business of TikTok, a short-** social app, in about 6 months, otherwise it will face a US ban. Regarding the bill, the latest Reuters news said that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) issued a statement later in the day to oppose it, criticizing the bill as "unconstitutional".
According to the report, more than a dozen members of the US Congress, including Gallagher, chairman of the U.S.-China Special Committee on Strategic Competition in the House of Representatives, and Democratic Party leader Krishna Murthy, have introduced the bill. The U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee will vote on the bipartisan proposal on Thursday (7th). The sponsors of the proposal claimed that the bill was introduced out of "concerns about the United States." A White House committee spokesman called the bill an "important and welcome step" and also declared that Biden would work further with Congress on this.
However, the bill was opposed by the Civil Liberties Union, a civil rights organization in the United States. According to Reuters, Jenna Levertov, senior policy adviser at the American Civil Liberties Union, said, "We are deeply disappointed that our leaders are once again trying to trade our First Amendment rights [of the U.S. Constitution] for cheap political points in an election year." ”