-众议院外交事务委员会计划在下个月就一项旨在阻止在美国使用中国流行的社交媒体应用程序TikTok的法案进行表决。
由该小组主席、共和党人迈克尔-麦考尔代表计划的这项措施，旨在为白宫提供法律工具，以便出于美国国家安全考虑禁止TikTok。
-2020年，时任总统唐纳德-特朗普试图阻止新用户下载TikTok，并禁止其他交易，这将有效地阻止该应用程序在美国的使用，但在一系列的法庭斗争中输掉了这项措施。
-拜登政府在2021年6月正式放弃了这一努力。然后在12月，共和党参议员Marco Rubio公布了禁止TikTok的两党立法，这也将阻止来自中国和俄罗斯境内或受其影响的任何社交媒体公司的所有交易。
-但是，禁止这个由ByteDance拥有的、在青少年中很受欢迎的短视频应用程序，将在国会面临重大障碍，需要在参议院获得60票才能通过。
-TikTok有超过1亿的美国用户。
-TikTok表示，它有 “全面的一揽子措施，有层层的政府和独立监督，以确保TikTok没有可用于操纵平台的后门”，迄今为止在这些努力上投入了大约15亿美元。
-美国政府的外国投资委员会（CFIUS）是一个强大的国家安全机构，在2020年命令字节跳动剥离TikTok，因为担心美国用户数据可能被传递给中国政府。
-自2021年以来，CFIUS和TikTok一直在谈判，旨在达成一项国家安全协议，以保护美国TikTok用户的数据。
-上个月，拜登签署了一项立法，其中包括禁止联邦雇员在政府所属设备上使用或下载TikTok。美国超过25个州也已经禁止在国有设备上使用TikTok。
-The House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to hold a vote next month on a bill aimed at blocking the use of China’s popular social media app TikTok in the United States.
-The measure, planned by the panel’s chair Representative Michael McCaul, a Republican, would aim to give the White House the legal tools to ban TikTok over U.S. national security concerns.
-In 2020, then-President Donald Trump attempted to block new users from downloading TikTok and ban other transactions that would have effectively blocked the app’s use in the United States, but lost a series of court battles over the measure.
-The Biden administration in June 2021 formally abandoned that effort. Then in December, Republican Senator Marco Rubio unveiled bipartisan legislation to ban TikTok, which would also block all transactions from any social media company in or under the influence of China and Russia.
-But a ban of the short video app, which is owned by ByteDance and is popular among teens, would face significant hurdles in Congress to pass, and would need 60 votes in the Senate.
-TikTok has more than 100 million U.S. users.
-TikTok said it had a “comprehensive package of measures with layers of government and independent oversight to ensure that there are no backdoors into TikTok that could be used to manipulate the platform” and invested roughly $1.5 billion to date on those efforts.
-The U.S. government’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a powerful national security body, in 2020 ordered ByteDance to divest TikTok because of fears that U.S. user data could be passed on to China’s government.
-CFIUS and TikTok have been in talks since 2021, aiming to reach a national security agreement to protect the data of U.S. TikTok users.
-Last month, Biden signed legislation that included a ban on federal employees using or downloading TikTok on government-owned devices. More than 25 U.S. states have also banned the use of TikTok on state-owned devices.
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