Tic Tok D'oh!
The US House of Representatives, in a rare moment of actually doing something... voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve a bipartisan bill that would require ByteDance , the parent company of TikTok, to sell the social media app or face a ban on all U.S. devices. As expected... TikTok has said the banning of a social media platform would amount to a violation of the free speech rights of millions of Americans. The American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ), has called the bill "censorship plain and simple," arguing that "jeopardizing access to the platform jeopardizes access to free expression." For its part... TicTok stresses that it has established a data firewall by partnering with Austin-based software company Oracle. Dubbed " Project Texas ," the new system routes all U.S. user traffic to Oracle, which now also controls the servers storing Americans' TikTok data. Still, the plan has not received the blessing from officials in Washington, who have