周六众议院通过的950亿美元的对外援助方案包括强制出售抖音的立法中国母公司字节跳动。
如果这项措施成为法律，并且如果一年内没有出售，该应用程序将在美国被禁止，因为人们普遍担心数据共享和外国影响抖音说是毫无根据的.
那么，下一步推动剥离或禁止美国非常受欢迎的社交媒体平台的是什么?
参议院及以后的未来
参议院计划从下周二开始着手处理外国援助计划，使其有望在周中最终通过。
迫使抖音撤资或被封禁的运动赢得了广泛的两党支持，立法者呼应了对抖音可能为中国收集美国用户数据或被用作传播中国宣传的工具的担忧。
众议院议长·迈克·约翰逊为“出售或禁止法案”的早期版本欢呼该法案于3月在众议院获得通过称这“表明了国会反对共产主义中国监视和操纵美国人的企图，也表明了我们威慑敌人的决心”。"
一些撤资支持者还指出，中国已经限制了像YouTube这样在中国非常受欢迎的美国平台。
抖音国际版为其数据管理进行了详细的辩护，称美国用户流量流经美国境内的第三方，以及额外的监督保护。
抖音说，字节跳动“不归任何政府或国家实体所有或控制”，尽管怀疑者认为，根据中国法律，字节跳动可能会被迫服从那里的政府。
尽管国会山有一些批评者对抖音的推动，撤资或禁止立法继续获得动力，白宫表示，总统乔·拜登将签署该法案的早期版本。
像华盛顿州参议院商务委员会主席玛丽亚·坎特威尔这样的知名民主党人现在也表示支持抖音条款。
坎特威尔是众议院此前强制销售或禁止抖音的法案的障碍，该法案于3月份通过，随后在参议院搁置。但她后来改变了看法，上周表示，众议院共和党人修改了法律，将法律生效后字节跳动必须销售该应用的最后期限从六个月延长至一年，从而赢得了她的支持。
抖音法案仍有可能被从参议院的对外援助法案中删除，但这将要求整个方案被送回众议院再次投票。与此同时，两党议员都强调了为乌以额外资金采取行动的紧迫性。
一位消息人士告诉ABC新闻，该应用程序正在努力“教育立法者”。该公司已采取积极措施说服议员们支持他们的立场，但目前还不清楚他们的策略是什么。
在一份声明中，抖音抨击了撤资背后的新举措。“不幸的是，众议院正在利用重要的外交和人道主义援助的幌子再次强行通过一项禁令法案，该法案将践踏1.7亿美国人的言论自由权，摧毁700万企业，并关闭一个每年为美国经济贡献240亿美元的平台，”该平台表示。
抖音可能会提起诉讼，阻止撤资法案在为期一年的出售窗口结束时生效。
来自加州的进步民主党众议员罗·卡纳(Ro Khanna)不支持众议院的立法，并在周日的美国广播公司新闻节目“本周”中预测，“我认为它不会通过(法院)第一修正案的审查，因为我认为有限制较少的替代方案。”
中国会怎么做?
今年3月，中国商务部长王表示，官员们将寻求阻止该应用的任何技术转让，称中国将“坚决反对”强制销售。
或许最令人担忧的是该应用的算法，该算法被视为其在呈现病毒式视频内容方面受欢迎的关键。
用户已经熟悉了该算法的成功，即使他们没有意识到这是允许该应用程序向用户提供与他们的兴趣相关的永不停止的视频流的原因。出售没有这项技术的抖音就像出售一辆没有发动机的汽车。
TikTokers在说什么?
许多TikTokers表示，他们反对这项立法，因为它可能会颠覆他们的数字媒体职业和业务，他们正在发出自己的声音。周六，众议院就该方案进行投票时，约50人在国会大厦前举行了示威游行。
一群30多名创作者还最近签署了一封公开信美国总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)警告他，对该应用采取行动将是一个“严重错误”，可能会在今年的选举年“疏远年轻选民”。
另一群抖音创作者计划周二在国会大厦外集会。
Congress gets closer to forcing TikTok to be sold or face US ban: What's next
The $95 billion foreign aid package that passed the House on Saturdayincluded legislation to force a sale of TikTokby its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
If the measure becomes law and if that sale then doesn't occur within a year, the app would be banned in the U.S. amid widespread data-sharing and foreign influence fears -- whichTikTok says are baseless.
So, what's next for the push to divest or ban the hugely popular social media platform in the U.S.?
The future in the Senate and beyond
The Senate plans to take up the foreign aid package next week, starting Tuesday, putting it on track for final passage by midweek.
The campaign to force TikTok to be divested or be banned has earned broad bipartisan support, with lawmakers echoing worries that TikTok could harvest Americans' user data for Beijing -- or be used as a vehicle to spread Chinese propaganda.
House Speaker Mike Johnson hailed an earlier version of the sell-or-ban billthat passed the House in March, saying it "demonstrates Congress' opposition to Communist China's attempts to spy on and manipulate Americans, and signals our resolve to deter our enemies."
Some supporters of divestment also note that China already restricts hugely popular American platforms like YouTube in their country.
TikTokhas defended its data management at length, saying U.S. user traffic flows through a third party within the U.S., along with additional oversight protections.
ByteDance is "not owned or controlled by any government or state entity," TikTok says, though skeptics believe ByteDance could hypothetically be forced under Chinese law to comply with the government there.
While there are some critics on Capitol Hill of the push against TikTok, the divestment-or-ban legislation continues to gain steam, and the White House said President Joe Biden would sign the earlier version of the bill.
High-profile Democrats like Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell of Washington have now signaled support for the TikTok provision, too.
Cantwell was an obstacle to the House's previous bill to force a sale or ban of TikTok, which passed in March and then stalled in the Senate. But she's since come around, saying last week that House Republicans earned her support by amending their legislation to extend the deadline for when ByteDance would be required to sell the app from six months to a year after the law were to go into effect.
The TikTok measure could still be stripped out of the foreign aid legislation in the Senate, but that would require the entire package to be sent back to the House for another vote -- at the same time that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have stressed urgency for acting on the additional money for Ukraine and Israel.
The app is working to "educate lawmakers," a source told ABC News. The company has mounted aggressive efforts to sway lawmakers to their position, but it's unclear what their strategy is now.
In a statement, TikTok slammed the renewed efforts behind divestment. "It is unfortunate that the House of Representatives is using the cover of important foreign and humanitarian assistance to once again jam through a ban bill that would trample the free speech rights of 170 million Americans, devastate 7 million businesses, and shutter a platform that contributes $24 billion to the U.S. economy, annually," the platform said.
TikTok would likely sue to block the divestment legislation from going into effect at the end of the one-year sale window.
Rep. Ro Khanna, a progressive Democrat from California, didn't support the legislation in the House and predicted Sunday on ABC News' "This Week" that "I don't think it's going to pass First Amendment scrutiny [by the courts] because I think there are less restrictive alternatives."
What would China do?
In March, China's Commerce Minister Wang Wentao indicated officials would seek to block any transfer of the app's technology, saying the country would "firmly oppose" a forced sale.
Of perhaps the greatest concern is the app's algorithm, seen as essential to its popularity in surfacing viral video content.
Users are already familiar with the algorithm's success, even if they don't realize that's what allows the app to feed users a never-ending stream of videos related to their interests. Selling TikTok without that technology would be like selling a car without an engine.
What are TikTokers saying?
Many TikTokers say they oppose the legislation, which could upend their digital media careers and businesses, and they are making their voices heard. A group of about 50 held a demonstration in front of the Capitol while the House voted on the package on Saturday.
A group of 30-plus creators alsorecently signed an open letterto President Joe Biden warning him that taking action against the app would be a "serious error" that could be "alienating young voters" in this election year.
Another group of TikTok creators are planning to rally outside the Capitol on Tuesday.
