That isn’t how legislation is passed. If anything, it needs a section about acceptable tar shingle application standards for roofs within 6 nautical miles of any heliport operated in a subarctic area on the west cost. Then it’s looking like a bill.
Just last year, Congress snapped to attention and wrote and quickly passed a bill to ban the eminent national security threat of a video-sharing app. That bill doesn't do anything else.
Just a reminder that Congress, even now, can rapidly act on a laser focus when it is sufficiently motivated.
Perhaps not the best example to choose given that the president managed to fully ignore that law. Tik-Tok remains unbanned to this day despite there being no sale.
In the US, 170 million people use TikTok. TikTok's US revenue reached $10 billion in 2024. US adult users spend an average of 53.8 minutes per day on TikTok. In 2024, TikTok was downloaded 875.67 million times.
(This data is going to include estimates. I am not going to quibble about the estimates, but whichever credible data source you choose will support the position that TikTok is not a niche outlet only used by a small segment of Americans.
Also, this data does not explore the number of Americans who earn a living by posting to the platform. Not interested in a values discussion about this, but banning the platform would suddenly cut off some Americans' income.)
Not a direct comparison, but CBS generally pulls ~5 million viewers during prime time programming. It's entirely likely that more people watch TikTok regularly than watch any TV network. For better or worse, TikTok is a very popular media outlet in the US.
This is "targeted" in the sense that it's targeted at essentially half of Americans and "tech" in the sense that every media uses tech.
Is there a good summary of that episode somewhere? I've tried to read up on it as I don't really understand how it was an eminent (imminent?) security threat.
There's a little of this, but more so, you only get one reconciliation bill per year. And anything that's not a reconciliation bill has to be bipartisan.
