Bill Text: HI HR206 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urging The United States Congress To Pass The "protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act" To Divest Ownership Of Tiktok Or Be Subject To A Nationwide Ban.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-14 - Referred to JHA, referral sheet 22 [HR206 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2024-HR206-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.R. NO.	206
THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

 

urging the united states congress to pass the "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act" to divest ownership of tiktok or be subject to a nationwide ban.

 

 

 

     WHEREAS, the popular video-sharing platform, TikTok, boasts one hundred seventy million United States users, including forty per cent of the nation's mobile internet users; and

 

     WHEREAS, TikTok poses serious national security concerns due to its ties with the Chinese Communist Party; and

 

     WHEREAS, TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is headquartered in Beijing, China, and under Chinese law, companies operating in China are compelled to share their data with the government upon request; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has warned that the Chinese Communist Party could harness the application to influence American users or control or otherwise compromise software on millions of electronic devices; and

 

     WHEREAS, ByteDance has refused to cease the flow of data to the Chinese government despite requests from the United States Committee on Foreign Investment to do so; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Chinese Communist Party may use the United States citizens' user information for intelligence gathering, intellectual property theft, and other illicit purposes; and

 

     WHEREAS, TikTok has developed a powerful algorithm which personalizes the videos shown to users based on their interactions with content, creating a feed that is addictive to the point of being dubbed 'digital fentanyl'; and

 

     WHEREAS, because the vast majority of TikTok users are young adults between eighteen and thirty-four years old, the privacy of an emerging generation is under threat; and

 

     WHEREAS, bipartisan legislation has been introduced in the United States Congress to ban TikTok from operating in the United States; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, H.R.7521, would force ByteDance to divest ownership of the app or be subject to a nationwide ban; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Energy and Commerce Congressional Committee recently issued a unanimous 50-0 vote to approve H.R.7521 and bring it to the House floor for a vote; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Thirty-second Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2024, that the United States Congress is urged to pass H.R.7521 to protect the nation's cybersecurity; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and each member of Hawaii's congressional delegation.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Cybersecurity; TikTok; Privacy; Technology; U.S. Congress