
RFK Jr. Condemns House Passage of Bill to Ban TikTok in the US
An outspoken critic of what he considers censorship from the federal government and big tech companies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. condemned the House of Representatives for passing a bill that could ban TikTok from the United States and give the president broad authority to target foreign firms in the country. If signed into law, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act will legally require TikTok to divest from ByteDance, its China-based parent company, or face a ban on American app stores and hosting services. “The so-called ‘Tik Tok ban’ is actually a Trojan Horse that could allow the president to ban any website or app merely by asserting that it is ‘controlled or guided’ by a foreign adversary,” Mr. Kennedy wrote on X, formerly Twitter, after the House passed the proposed legislation....
