Montana lawmakers on Friday approved a bill to ban TikTok, the first U.S. state to do so. The Montana House voted 54-43 to send the bill to Governor Greg Gianforte’s desk.
U.S. officials, senators, and representatives have for years expressed concerns that the Chinese Communist Party could force TikTok to spy on its 150 million American users or distribute CCP propaganda.
Meghan Bobrowsky and Stu Woo for Teh Wall Street Journal:
The governor’s office declined to say whether he would sign the bill but noted Mr. Gianforte had previously banned TikTok on government-issued devices and urged the state university system to do the same.
The bill said the ban would go into effect on Jan. 1, 2024. It would prohibit TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., from operating within the state, and would also bar app stores from offering TikTok within the state. It would fine any entity violating this law $10,000 per violation.
Once the governor receives the bill, he has 10 days to act on it before it automatically becomes law.
The bill’s authors ahead of the vote said they expect legal challenges that could ultimately reach the U.S. Supreme Court should Mr. Gianforte sign the legislation.
App store-providers Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
MacDailyNews Take: Could trigger a domino effect.
See also: U.S. President Trump issues executive orders banning TikTok and WeChat – August 7, 2020
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Rightwing cancel culture at work.
A “cancel culture” accusation coming from a leftist cuck is quite humorous.
the poorly educated with an opinion is even funnier.
Damn, you Libturds are fucking stupid
Do you have a contest going to see who can be the dumbest?
Can’t come close to you moron.
An attempted insult by a libturd means less than dog shit.
If you agreed with me, I would be a fucking idiot too.
Goddammit stop saying “libturd.”
I AGREE with you, and it makes you sound like a fucking idiot.
You know how lefties sound when they call trump “Drumpf”?
Thats how you sound now.
Libturd stupidity has caused:
-Lying, corrupt, racist, pedophile, dementia patient and whore installed in the White House
-Burning cities
-Occupy movement
-Doubled gas prices
-Gas pipeline shut down
-US emergency oil stockpiles drop to lowest level since 1983
-Unaffordable healthcare insurance
-Legalization of marijuana
-Baby killing
-Wants to ban gas stoves to save children but has no problem killing unborn children
-Destroyed economy
-Crashed stock market
-Upcoming recession
-Highest inflation in 40 years
-Weaponized IRS
-Destroyed school system
-Open border crisis
-Illegal aliens getting drivers licenses
-Illegal aliens getting free medical insurance
-Illegal aliens getting tax-payer money
– National Guard pay delayed after congress celebrates itself for spending $1.7 Trillion
-Trading a useless, athlete for a notorious arms dealer (Merchant of Death), while leaving behind a USMC veteran, because she is an anti-American, black lezbo.
-Releasing a notorious arms dealer (Merchant of Death) while trying to deprive Americans the right to defend themselves with gun control so we can protect ourselves from violent libturds
-Red flag laws
-Voter fraud enabling
-No voter ID
-Labeling all non-libturds as domestic terrorists
-Labeling all non-libturds as racist
-“Extremists” used to be real terrorists, now it people who want to secure the border or keep pornography out of elementary schools
-Electric car mandates during electric crisis
-Woke bullshit
-“Identify as” bullshit
-“Inclusion” but only what libturds want to include
-Kneeling for National Anthem
-Woke hirings preferred over actual competence
-Obese, mentally ill person installed as head of health
-Mentally ill, genderfluid ‘puppy’ thief installed at Department of Energy
-Jill Biden gives biological male “Women of Courage” award
-320 genders
-It/that, them/they, and WTF pronouns
-Misgendering bullshit
-Epstein client list hidden
-Russia collusion bullshit
-Destruction of free speech
-Transgender perversion forced on children
-Drag queen story hours
-Boys in the girls’ bathrooms.
-Boys in girls’ sports
-Men can get pregnant
-Record underemployment
-Defund police
-Soft on crime policies
-Zero bail laws
-Record high crime
-Obese, ugly men winning female beauty pageants
-Food shortages
-Corruption of Legislators
-Corruption of Judges
-Corrupt FBI
-Corrupt CIA
-Corrupt media
-Corrupt social media
-Acceptance of Socialism and rejection of Capitalism
-Election and reelection of incredibly stupid, mentally unfit politicians: AOC, racist Omar, We have to pass it to find out what in it, Pelosi, Guam will tip over Hank Johnson, brain damaged Fetterman, Dementia Joe—just to name a few.
-Ukraine gets: $200 billion, Congress gets: 41% pay increase,Taliban gets: $85 billion, Iran gets: $200 billion, American get: $7 eggs, $4 gas, 50% increase on electricity, free crack pipes, open
borders, fentanyl crisis, toxic spills
-The list goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and…
And you are so fucking stupid that you think you are the smart ones!
You want to start a revolution, but you can’t even start a lawnmower.
The next civil war will be fought between Americans and libturds. One side has 300 million firearms and trillions of rounds of ammunition, the other has strap-on dildos and toilet plungers.
Fuck Joe Biden. Fuck libturds
“One side has 300 million firearms and trillions of rounds of ammunition”
But not enough beer cans!
Fuck you too.
You forgot:
– Illegal immigrants getting the right to vote.😊
Thank, I will add that in
Excellent!! I’m going to copy and save that list! Useful when my dilusional Lib friends try to convince me how great the Biden era is. Certainly spells it out.
If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one. If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat. If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal, wonders who is going to take care of him.
If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels. Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.
If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church. A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and Jesus silenced.
If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it. A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.
If a conservative reads this, he’ll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh. A liberal will delete it because he’s “offended.”
Well, I forwarded it to you!
Sam, get an effing life. You throw around insults and labels like a brainwashed soviet troll, using zero evidence to attempt to substantiate your outrage.
The first item in your idiotic list describes The Donald more than any other leader. Who promised to drain the swamp but instead filled it, and is now paying in court for his endless lies and corruption?
Court corruption— which justice takes bribes and is married to a rabid lying propagandist?
The rest of what you claim to be serious issues is pure bullshit propaganda from the losers like Fox “News” that are in court now trying to defend their endless lies.
That is all you have, and that is all you’ve ever had. Angst whine and lies. You use no objective facts or reason so of course you blow everything dramatically out of proportion.
How come your orange hero didn’t permanently fix any of your grievances? He claimed he would ban Tiktok but like everything else, it was just a media stunt.
So cut the political BS. In our country, the citizens deserve choices. You know what happens when you achieve your fascist dream of a one party system? The former USA would look exactly like China, enriching themselves and hamstringing the middle class. That is the GOP in a nutshell.
Fuck Libturds
You believe that a Lying, corrupt, racist, pedophile, dementia patient installed in the White House relates more to Trump than Dementia Joe????
LolololLol. That’s why you are known as libturds. Dumber than shit
Well Democrat Fascist Libturds are well on their way, so do tell us what happens.
Maybe the following…
https://media.patriots.win/post/Ft4Gitc666Cj.jpeg
Just in case this one was missed: While lying in the prone position (usually on a dirty street) … “First, I would like to apologize for being white.”
and topping out with an IQ of 80 is sam. Let’s all thank sam for his ignorant comment.
Hey Einstein, “Late last year, President Joe Biden signed legislation prohibiting TikTok on federal government devices, and more than half of US states have enacted a similar mandate at the state level.” You know jacksh*t about Cancel Culture. Another garden variety Leftist hypocrite OBLIVIOUS TO FACTS!…
Funny how all the libturds are downvoting these FACTS. Lol
Really says all you need to know about libturds
In the minority!
And it’s the Federal Government that sets foreign trade policy. Thanks for playing!
They don’t need facts in their world, just feelings, which your negative comments have now likely caused them to be “triggered” (WETF that is..?).
1st poster probably liked Elon before he orchestrated exposure of govt’s influence of info posted to TWTR and other socials. Now, he’s just a cuck scumbag that’s too rich for his britches. Logic is good when I like it, kind of person.
Not a fan of TikTok, but this is stupid and un-enforceable law. Government should not be in the business of regulating what apps I can put on my phone.
Agree 100%.
Neither should Apple!
It’s Apple’s platform, not the US government.
It’s the job of the government to regulate antitrust issues though.
Apple 100% needs regulation.
Why does Apple need regulation? Because they don’t operate their platform the way you think they should? If you don’t like it, use something else.
Apple received money in exchange for goods. It’s my device, not theirs. Most applications belong to 3rd parties, not Apple.
So the gov should not regulate Chinese spyware???????????
If anything, they should focus on spyware from companies from the likes of Facebook first.
But, China is bad… I guess?
Nope, they don’t regulate US spyware either.
I don’t think there is anything more emblematic of the success of foreign (Chinese & Russian) efforts to destabilize the USA from within than all of the senseless right wing versus left wing blather here. We need to get over this time and energy wasting tribalism and remember that we Americans benefit by staying on the same side against these meddling countries. Our country was founded on the very idea that we can have vastly differing opinions but still work together to find common ground. The alternative is the tyrannical, authoritarian systems of Putin and Xi.
“Americans benefit by staying on the same side against these meddling countries”
Americans are on the same side, the problem is the libturds.
Nobody meddles more than the US. We spy more expansively than all other countries combined, much of it illegally.
the problem is empty headed twits like you spouting the same old stupid nonsense.
Becky the troll proves her complicity once again. You know all about the superiority of ultra conservative one-party states, don’t you komrade?