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handle is hein.crs/goveoqc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional_______ R a esearch Service Restricting TikTok (Part II): Legislative Proposals and Considerations for Congress Updated March 15, 2024 This Legal Sidebar is the second installment in a two-part series on U.S. efforts to regulate the video- sharing application (app) TikTok. The first installment provided legal background on executive branch- led efforts to restrict TikTok's U.S. presence and operations. This Sidebar analyzes proposals to create new authorities to restrict TikTok and examines constitutional and other legal issues for Congress to consider. Legislative Proposals Against the backdrop of executive branch efforts discussed in Part I of this series, the 118th Congress is considering legislative proposals that would address TikTok's alleged national security risks. On March 13, 2024, the House passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (H.R. 7521), which would prohibit app stores and internet hosting services from supporting TikTok unless it undergoes a qualified divestment that removes it from foreign adversary control. A number of other bills have also been introduced that would authorize or require the executive branch to restrict transactions involving TikTok. These bills are discussed further below, and several distinctions among them are outlined in Table 1. H.R. 7521 H.R. 7521 would prohibit app stores and internet hosting services from enabling the distribution, maintenance, or updating of foreign adversary controlled applications. The bill would also require foreign adversary controlled applications to provide, upon request, U.S. users with all the data related to their accounts (including their posts, photos, and videos) in a machine readable format. A company that violates either restriction could be fined in an amount based in part on the number of users affected by the violation. The bill defines foreign adversary controlled application to include TikTok and any other subsidiary of ByteDance, Ltd. (TikTok's parent company). The definition also includes any other website, app, or augmented or immersive technology that (1) meets certain definitional requirements (e.g., allows uses to share content with each other and has more than 1 million monthly active users); (2) is owned by a Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov LSB10942 CR3 Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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