119th Congress · SENATE BILLBILL

S. 153 — Repeal the TikTok Ban Act

“A bill to repeal the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.”

Science, technology, communications
Introduced Jan 20, 2025
Last action Jan 20, 2025
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SummaryCRS Summary

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 m...

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Jan 20, 2025
Introduced in Senate
Jan 20, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.