Various options are on the table.
Because TikTok is expected to challenge any new law in court, senators want to adjust the language to make it more difficult to overturn. Some have floated extending the amount of time Chinese parent ByteDance would have to divest the U.S. operations due to the challenges of any deal, or broadening the bill to tackle other social-media woes.
Cantwell, a Washington Democrat, has kept her plans close to the vest. But the prospect of changes has prompted Republicans to warn that alterations to the bill, whose general thrust is popular on both sides of the aisle, could siphon support from the legislation.
“The Senate should take up and pass the Tik Tok divestment bill asap,” Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas) said on social media.
Senators appear to be digging in for a prolonged debate, and the deliberations have frustrated proponents’ hopes for quick consideration of the measure.
The pause in action has bought time for TikTok and its opponents to try to shape public opinion about the popular but controversial app through multimillion-dollar marketing campaigns.
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@VoterIDHarryGreen2yrs2Y
The reason it poison pills the legislation is because conservatives will not accept any expansion of administrative authority. At some point the right is going to have to reckon with the need to have an actual government to address China.
Cantwell is a Dem. She is being lobbied by her ex aides who work for Tiktok and she heads the committee. GOP has issues for sure but start closer to home
@VoterIDHarryGreen2yrs2Y
I'm aware of how Cantwell thinks, I'm also aware of the dynamics going on among Rs and Ds. There's a compromise here that would work, but it's the Rs who won't take it because they think Biden is an authoritarian who will use any authority to put them into camps.
@CuriousClamRepublican2yrs2Y
it poison pills the legislation because the left has been abusing what administrative authority already exists. The left had to choose between a united front against China or weaponizing government to bully & censor conservatives, they made their choice clear
@VoterIDHarryGreen2yrs2Y
When you lose an election the other guy gets to make policy. That's how democracy works.
@CuriousClamRepublican2yrs2Y
the way our democracy works is there's more than one guy elected and power is divided among them
@VoterIDHarryGreen2yrs2Y
Correct. But there's one President at a time, and when the Dem is in charge he executes the laws. That's something you'll have to accept, just as Dems have to accept it about Trump. (And they do not accept it either, so this is a bipartisan problem.)
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@ISIDEWITH2yrs2Y
We don’t need to become China to compete with China. The bill should be specific to Tiktok. All power granted to an administration will eventually be abused. You know that.
@JumpyDunbirdLibertarian2yrs2Y
Design a phone that is 100% private.
@CabinetZachLibertarian2yrs2Y
But why must we “address china” and how? Should we interfere in the free market, expand regulations on industries? Or would you prefer a military approach?
@KingdomPeteSocialist2yrs2Y
The neo-Brandeisian antitrust consensus pitch to the right: to address the China challenge, you need to expand the administrative state and break up all your big companies.
In other words, big government and small business.
Good luck with that.
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