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With a ban on TikTok likely to go into effect on January 19, many of the platform’s estimated 150 million active monthly U.S. users are looking for an alternative. For LGBTQ+ users, finding a similar platform that is both free of censorship and queer and trans friendly may prove challenging.
Last year, President Joe Biden signed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (H.R. 7521). The law stems from bipartisan concerns from U.S. legislators and intelligence officials that TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, may give Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities access to the app’s user data, suppress content critical of China, or push pro-Chinese propaganda to users. It gave ByteDance nine months to sell the app to an American buy or be banned in the U.S.
Last year, President Joe Biden signed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (H.R. 7521). The law stems from bipartisan concerns from U.S. legislators and intelligence officials that TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, may give Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities access to the app’s user data, suppress content critical of China, or push pro-Chinese propaganda to users. It gave ByteDance nine months to sell the app to an American buy or be banned in the U.S.