The Repeal the TikTok Ban Act would eliminate the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, the 2024 law that required ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban from U.S. app stores and web hosting services. If enacted, the repeal would retroactively void any designations made under the earlier law, restoring TikTok and any other apps designated under it to full legal operation in the United States. The bill does not replace the foreign adversary app framework with any alternative oversight mechanism — it simply removes the law in its entirety. Roughly 170 million Americans use TikTok.
Civil Liberties
- Access to TikTok and other designated foreign adversary apps — restored for approximately 170 million U.S. users by repealing the ban law
- App store and hosting availability for covered applications — removes prohibition on platforms distributing designated apps
Transparency & Accountability
- Federal oversight framework for foreign adversary controlled applications — eliminated entirely with no replacement mechanism
Congressional Summary
Repeal the TikTok Ban ActThis bill repeals the prohibition on distributing, maintaining, updating, or providing internet hosting services for a foreign adversary controlled application (e.g., TikTok) and nullifies any existing designation of a website or application as a foreign adversary controlled application. Under current law, a foreign adversary controlled application is a website or application directly or indirectly operated by (1) ByteDance, Ltd., TikTok, their subsidiaries, successors, or related entities they control; or (2) a social media company that is controlled by a foreign adversary country and determined by the President to present a significant threat to national security. (Here, the term social media company excludes any website or application primarily used to post product reviews, business reviews, or travel information and reviews. The term foreign adversary country means North Korea, China, Russia, and Iran.) Current law generally prohibits the distribution, maintenance, implementation of updates, or provision of hosting services for a foreign adversary controlled application, unless an approved divestiture transaction results in the application no longer being controlled by a foreign adversary country, among other requirements.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-01-20
- Date Added
- 2026-06-03
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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