Those apps include others made by TikTok's owner ByteDance, like CapCut and Lemon8, as well as e-commerce apps like Temu and Shein.
by the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.
Perhaps the most prominent of the bills that could lead to TikTok's ban in the U.S., the RESTRICT Act, would give the Commerce Secretary the power to recommend barring technology that comes from a select group of foreign adversary countries if they determine the risks cannot be sufficiently mitigated otherwise.
In the post, Yen suggested these issues could be resolved with changes to the bill's language to make it more targeted and limited in scope. Still, a TikTok ban would have other effects in the U.S., like yielding more market share to existing tech giants in the U.S. likeFacebook and Instagram. Proton has been an active proponent of antitrust reform to create what some companies see as a more level playing field for tech developers in the U.S.
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