2024-03-26 02:03:53
Ahead of the House vote earlier this month
TikTok, pop-up message
Inciting backlash from teenage users
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The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on the 24th (local time) that as the so-called ‘TikTok Ban Act’, which would separate social media TikTok from its Chinese parent company, is about to be voted on in the Senate, children of U.S. lawmakers are directly lobbying their parents to block the passage of the bill. reported.
Representative Josh Gotheimer (Democrat, New Jersey) said, “My daughter was very upset about all of this and said, ‘You can’t do that.’”
Rep. Hilary Scholten (Democrat, Michigan) went to pick up her son from middle school when his friend asked, “Are you the one who wants to ban TikTok?”
Representatives Gotheimer and Scholten both voted in favor of the ‘TikTok ban bill’ held in the House of Representatives earlier this month.
This bill contains provisions that would ban TikTok services in the United States if Chinese parent company ByteDance does not sell TikTok within six months. It was passed with bipartisan support in the House of Representatives vote on the 13th, with 325 votes in favor and 65 against.
TikTok is actively encouraging teenage users to speak out against the passage of the bill. Ahead of the House vote earlier this month, TikTok sent a pop-up message to its 170 million users in the U.S. saying, ‘Call your congressman.’
Representative Nancy Mays (R-South Carolina) was eating Mexican food for dinner when she received a call from her two teenage children.
“The kids were lobbying me and kept asking me where I was going because they were afraid I was going to vote in favor of the ‘TikTok ban,’” said Rep. Mays. Rep. Mays voted against the ‘Tik Tok Ban Act’. He said that he received praise from his children as soon as he came home, saying, “The children already knew that I voted against it through TikTok.”
Senators are also being lobbied by their teenage children.
Senator John Fetterman (Democrat, Pennsylvania) recently asked his daughter, ‘Please don’t destroy TikTok. I received a text message saying, ‘I’m going to be bullied by my friends.’ Representative Fetterman’s position is that he does not want to ban TikTok, but wants to separate it from Chinese control.
Senator Todd Young (R-Indiana) said, “My children are really tough negotiators. “They don’t want to listen to me,” he said. Rep. Young wants TikTok to separate from China, but his stance is that he should be cautious about bills in the House of Representatives that directly mention TikTok.
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