The democratic ranking members comments:
“We cannot act rashly without consideration of the very real soft power, free speech and economic consequences of a ban,” Meeks said on Tuesday. He later warned his colleagues against using the tactics of “fear” to pass a TikTok ban. “I’ve seen that tactic utilized before — fear that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, without evidence or proof,” he said.
From Natalie Smolenski:
Republican Senator Marco Rubio says the bill doesn’t go far enough and has proposed an even more draconian one.
Republican Representative Michael McCaul, Chair of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, sponsored a bill to give President Biden unilateral authority to ban apps—the censorship equivalent of the AUMF, which granted the President full authority to wage war anywhere, anytime, for any reason.
McCaul’s bill was just passed by the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee entirely along party lines (all Republicans for, all Democrats against) and will be voted on by the full House soon.