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Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird filed a lawsuit this week seeking to require TikTok to change its age rating in the Apple App Store.

Bird is seeking a temporary injunction that would require TikTok, a video social media app, to change its age rating to “17+” in the App Store until the lawsuit is resolved. The state attorney general sued TikTok in January, claiming that the app and its owner were deceiving parents with the current “12+” age rating, as some videos posted on the platform feature explicit material, including sexual content, profanity, drugs and self-harm.

Bird argued in the lawsuit that TikTok not abiding by the age warning system violates the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act.

“It’s past time for TikTok to be honest with…

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved legislation that would require TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell it within 180 days… or risk having the app barred from app stores and web hosting services in the United States.

The vote was 352 in favor; 65 opposed.  Pretty impressive disapproval of a social media company’s ownership model.  The supporters of the bill didn’t like the fact that ByteDance might be providing user data to the Chinese government, letting the Communists know which dancing cat video is most popular among Americans.

Our economic system is threatened.  And also, maybe our own home-grown social media empires.

One of the 65 Representatives opposed to the bill — Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky — suggested that “the bill…

On Wednesday, the House approved a bill where ByteDance would be forced to sell TikTok or face a practical U.S. ban from app stores and web-hosting services if it is signed into law, according to a story in USA Today.

The bill gained bipartisan support passing the House 352 to 65. The bill is now on its way to the Senate where its fate is uncertain, and on March 8, President Joe Biden said he would sign it should it make it to his desk.

If signed into law, the bill would prevent app stores like Apple and Google from distributing or updating TikTok and web hosting companies from distributing it, according to an article in USA Today.

Social media influencers Bailey Lavender of Greenville and Spartanburg’s Jorden Hall are worried about the possible TikTok ban.

TikTok once again finds itself in a precarious position as lawmakers in Washington move forward with a bill that could lead to a nationwide ban on the platform.

The House on Wednesday passed legislation that would ban TikTok if its China-based owner ByteDance doesn’t sell its stakes in the popular social media platform within six months of the bill’s enactment.

What’s in the House bill?

The legislation essentially gives ByteDance two options – sell TikTok or face a ban.

If ByteDance chooses to divest its stakes, TikTok would continue to operate in the US if the President determines “through an inter-agency process” that the platform is “no longer being controlled by a foreign adversary.”

The bill would also require ByteDance to give up control of TikTok’s well-known algorithm, which…