Republican senators back plan to sell TikTok's U.S. operations

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Two Republican senators back a plan by China's ByteDance to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok after President Donald Trump said on Friday he had decided to ban the popular short-video app.

FILE PHOTO: Tik Tok logos are seen on smartphones in front of a displayed ByteDance logo in this illustration taken November 27, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said on Twitter on Sunday that divestment “and purchase by U.S. company is win-win.” Mnuchin said he and U.S. congressional leaders “all agree there has to be a change.” He added Trump could “either force a sale or the president can block the app using . And I’m not going to comment on my specific discussions with the president.”

Reuters reported on Saturday that ByteDance agreed to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok completely in a bid to save a deal with the White House.

 

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Sure they do probably make millions off the deal

Take it as a fair trade. Facebook, Google, WhatsApp, Instagram, Gmail, all products are banned in China. Now US is going to ban one product, TikTok , from China as a starter. People go crazy? Hilarious.

China hold the majority of cloud storage on home security cameras, and y’all are worried about TikTok🤦‍♀️ either ban it all or move on. 🤣

Viva la censorship!

Republicans are nothing but a bunch of 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

Great idea - make sure that the fear of info going to China doesn’t swap to info going to wring hands in USA. Big tech isn’t the most trustworthy

Shocker!...

It was never abour national security. It was a hostile mafia style take over. This is America.

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