The plan to ban TikTok in the United States is diluted: the Senate will take months to deal with it

A I count this would force the Chinese owners to sell the video platform to a local company Tick ​​tock to stay active United States of America will have a cautious treatment in the Senateaccording to leading lawmakers after its approval by the Lower House.

The rapid approval of the bill in House of Representatives Wednesday and the approval of the American president Joe Biden -who said he would enact it after his passage to Congress-, raised the alarm about a possible termination of the popular application to share short videos, which has 170 million users in the United States alone.

But TikTok’s enemies hope the Senate will act, too they vanished quickly. Influential senators have assured that they will submit the bill to Parliament usual legislative processwhich would require a months of treatment.

“These fields are evolving and changing so rapidly that If you act too quickly you can cause a lot of damage or without the hard facts,” he told the newspaper Friday Washington Post the senator Ron Wydenthe Democrat who chairs the Senate Finance Committee.

Passing major legislation is often especially difficult in election years like this one, and the bill’s supporters are already bitterly anticipating that the House bill will succumb to the senators.

Republican senator Josh Hawley provides a “death” of the initiative “a thousand and one cuts” in its text, as declared to the information portal Axios.

“Nothing that big tech companies don’t want to happen in the full Senate”She said.

Steve Mnuchinthe former US Treasury secretary during Donald Trump’s presidency said on Thursday he wanted to bring investors together buy TikTok.

TikTok, involved in the fight between the United States and China

The fact that Tick ​​tock belongs to the Chinese technology giant ByteDancesupposedly subordinated to the Chinese Communist Party, worries the Western powers.

The Chinese government, where the video app is not available, has accused the United States of acting with “logic of a criminal” and prevent an “open, fair, equitable and non-discriminatory” environment for foreign companies.

Beijing does not want a precedent to be set by seeing a Chinese company forced to sell one of its most valuable assets, including a algorithm that is the envy of its competitorsanalysts estimate.

“This type of threat is like a robbery in broad daylight“, She said AFP Mei Xinyua Chinese economist.

US lawmakers and security agencies say TikTok poses a threat because China can access and use huge volumes of data for which the application collects spy and manipulate to its 170 million users in the United States.

TikTok denies these accusations and claims to have spent approximately $1.5 billion on the “Texas Project”, according to which US user data is stored in the United States.

But some critics believe that data is only part of the problem and that algorithm which produces personalized recommendations for TikTok users must also separate itself from ByteDance.