119th Congress · introduced in the Senate · Jan 20, 2025
Repeal the TikTok Ban Act
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Latest action (Jan 20, 2025): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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Congressional Research Service summary, version: Introduced in Senate (Jan 20, 2025)
Repeal the TikTok Ban Act
This bill repeals the prohibition on distributing, maintaining, updating, or providing internet hosting services for a foreign adversary controlled application (e.g., TikTok) and nullifies any existing designation of a website or application as a foreign adversary controlled application.
Under current law, a foreign adversary controlled application is a website or application directly or indirectly operated by (1) ByteDance, Ltd., TikTok, their subsidiaries, successors, or related entities they control; or (2) a social media company that is controlled by a foreign adversary country and determined by the President to present a significant threat to national security. (Here, the term social media company excludes any website or application primarily used to post product reviews, business reviews, or travel information and reviews. The term foreign adversary country means North Korea, China, Russia, and Iran.)
Current law generally prohibits the distribution, maintenance, implementation of updates, or provision of hosting services for a foreign adversary controlled application, unless an approved divestiture transaction results in the application no longer being controlled by a foreign adversary country, among other requirements.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Introduced in Senate
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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION · lobbying firm or registrant: AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
2025 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2025 – Mar 31, 2025) · posted Apr 21, 2025 · issue area: Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
$560,000
Spent on own lobbying
…d: Civil rights. S. 894- Do No Harm Act - Issues Lobbied: Religious liberty. S. 867-Broadcast Freedom and Independence Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Free speech. S. 153- Repeal the TikTok Ban Act-Issues Lobbied: Free speech. S. 163-Protecting Students on Campus Act of 2025-Issues Lobbied: Civil rights. S. Res. 133-A resolution…
Congress inferred from the report year; bill number and the title cited with it match Congress.gov records, and the bill predates the report. The amount is lobbying spending for every issue on this report, not this bill alone, and none of it is paid to any member of Congress. View filing
FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION (FIRE) · lobbying firm or registrant: FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION (FIRE)
2025 Q1 report (Jan 1, 2025 – Mar 31, 2025) · posted Apr 8, 2025 · issue area: Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
$30,000
Spent on own lobbying
…ficials from pressuring online platforms to suppress constitutionally protected speech, also known as jawboning; an untitled bill to address federal jawboning; S. 153, a bill to repeal the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act; S. 278, the Kids Off Social Media Act; legislation to amend 42 U…
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