美国对抖音的潜在禁令航行作为950亿美元对外援助的一部分包裹这获得了两党的支持。
这社会化媒体镇压可能会成为法律，因为乔·拜登总统已经发誓如果它通过参议院并到达他的办公桌上就会签署。
抖音法案仍有可能从参议院的对外援助法案中删除，但这需要将整个法案发回众议院再次投票。与此同时，两党议员都强调了为乌以两国追加援助资金的紧迫性。
如果该法案获得通过，将迫使其中国母公司字节跳动出售这款广受欢迎的社交媒体应用。在没有出售的情况下，该应用程序将禁止.
抖音没有立即回应ABC新闻的置评请求。在此前的一份声明中，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。
以下是关于禁令是否会生效、对用户意味着什么以及人们如何寻求绕过禁令的一些信息:
抖音最终会被禁止吗?
即使该措施成为法律，抖音仍可能避免禁令。
字节跳动可以选择这样做卖抖音，确保该应用程序对美国用户持续可用。众议院通过的法案给予字节跳动9个月的出售时间，并有可能延长3个月。
无论是否可能出售，这项措施都可能会引发争议法律挑战据专家称，根据第一修正案，这可能会使该法律完全无效。
乔治城大学法律和技术教授阿努帕姆·钱德尔此前对美国广播公司新闻表示，抖音及其用户可以挑战该法律，称其侵犯了受宪法保护的言论自由。钱德尔说，作为反对意见，美国政府可能会辩称，国家安全问题应重于第一修正案的保护。
去年五月，抖音要求蒙大拿州就该州颁布的应用禁令向联邦法院提起诉讼，称该法律侵犯了用户的第一修正案权利。几个月后的11月，一名联邦法官做出了有利于抖音的裁决，并在该法律生效前阻止了它的实施。
然而，康奈尔大学技术政策研究所所长萨拉·克雷普斯告诉美国广播公司新闻，蒙大拿州的这项措施可能不会对联邦禁令的法律后果产生什么影响。在蒙大拿州，立法者以隐私和儿童安全为由禁止抖音，而联邦法规则出于国家安全考虑。
“这是苹果和橘子，”克雷普斯说。
尽管如此，如果美国颁布一项禁止抖音的法律，联邦法官可能会下令暂时暂停，因为这项法律挑战将通过法院系统进行，因为这项措施将产生广泛的影响。
潜在的禁令将如何运作?
该措施将通过从美国应用商店(包括iPhone和Android上的热门平台)移除抖音来禁止该软件。
专家告诉ABC新闻，新客户将无法下载该应用程序，而现有用户将无法获得重要更新。
中密歇根大学计算机科学教授廖琦在接受ABC新闻采访时表示:“用户仍可以在移动设备上保留这款应用，但他们无法获得更新，最终它会过时。”。
廖补充说，在禁令生效后，用户可能可以使用该应用长达一年，但该应用会恶化并最终无法使用。
克雷普斯说，这款应用的潜在衰落将相当于“缓慢的失败”。
“人们想使用抖音的原因是它简单、有趣、用户界面好，”克雷普斯补充道。“如果不随着时间的推移进行更新，它就不会有用户喜欢的那些品质。“
用户会想办法绕过禁令吗?
专家说，一些用户可能能够绕过禁令，但这对许多人来说太困难或不方便。
“对大多数人来说，这将是很多麻烦，”廖说。“对于那些精通技术、积极上进的人来说，他们可以做到这一点。”
廖说，举例来说，个人可以绕过应用商店进行离线应用安装。他补充说，要做到这一点，个人可以从互联网上下载一个安装包，将其移动到USB驱动器并传输到他们的手机上。
专家说，个人也可以使用虚拟专用网络(VPN)，这种网络允许个人冒充用户从国外登录，从而绕过美国的具体禁令。
克雷普斯说，一些用户会绕开禁令，但随着时间的推移，这种困难和烦恼可能会促使他们转向竞争对手的服务。
“这不会是一个开关，”她补充道。“但人们会更喜欢阻力最小的道路。”
Congress seems poised to pass potential TikTok ban in US. How would it work?
A potential ban of TikTok in the United Statessailedthrough the House of Representatives over the weekend as part of a $95 billion foreign aidpackagethat garnered bipartisan support.
Thesocial mediacrackdown may stand poised to become law, since President Joe Biden has vowed to sign it if it passes the Senate and reaches his desk.
The TikTok measure could still be removed from 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.
If enacted, the measure would force a sale of the popular social media app by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance. In the absence of a sale, the app would bebanned.
TikTok did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment. In a previous 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.
Here's what to know about whether the ban would ever take effect, what it means for users and how people may seek to bypass it:
Will TikTok ultimately get banned?
Even if the measure becomes law, TikTok may still avoid a ban.
ByteDance could opt tosellTikTok, ensuring the continued availability of the app for U.S. users. The bill passed in the House grants ByteDance nine months to sell, with the potential for a three-month extension.
Regardless of a possible sale, the measure would likely elicit alegal challengeon First Amendment grounds that could nullify the law entirely, according to experts.
TikTok and its users could challenge the law as an infringement upon constitutionally protected freedom of speech, Anupam Chander, a professor of law and technology at Georgetown University, previously told ABC News. In opposition, the U.S. government would likely argue that national security concerns should outweigh First Amendment protections, Chander said.
Last May, TikToksuedMontana in federal court over a ban of the app enacted by the state, saying the law violated the First Amendment rights of users. Months later, in November, a federal judge ruled in favor of TikTok and blocked the law before it took effect.
However, the measure in Montana may offer little insight into the legal outcome of a federal ban, Sarah Kreps, director of Cornell University's Tech Policy Institute, told ABC News. In Montana, lawmakers banned TikTok on privacy and child safety grounds, while the federal statute draws on national security considerations.
"This is apples and oranges," Kreps said.
Still, if the U.S. enacts a law banning TikTok, a federal judge may order a temporary pause while the legal challenge makes its way through the court system due to the wide-reaching ramifications of such a measure.
How would a potential ban work?
The measure would ban TikTok by removing it from U.S. app stores, including popular platforms on iPhone and Android.
New customers would be unable to download the app, while current users would lose access to vital updates, experts told ABC News.
"Users can still keep the app on their mobile devices, but they won't be able to get the updates and eventually it's going to become outdated," Qi Liao, a professor of computer science at Central Michigan University, told ABC News.
Users may be able to use the app for up to one year after the ban goes into effect, Liao added, but the app would deteriorate and eventually become inoperable.
The potential decline of the app, Kreps said, would amount to a "slow fizzle."
"The reasons why people have wanted to use TikTok are that it's easy, it's fun, it has a nice user interface," Kreps added. "Without updates over time, it would not have those same qualities that users have liked."
Will users find ways to get around the ban?
Some users would likely be able to circumvent the ban, but it would prove too difficult or inconvenient for many, experts said.
"For the majority of people, it will be lots of trouble," Liao said. "For someone who is tech-savvy and motivated, they can do it."
For instance, individuals could pursue offline app installation that bypasses the app store, Liao said. To do this, he added, an individual could download an installation package from the internet, move it to a USB drive and transfer it to their phone.
Individuals could also use a Virtual Private Network, or VPN, which allows one to pose as a user logging on from a location abroad, thereby circumventing the U.S.-specific ban, experts said.
Some users would circumvent the ban but over time, the difficulty and annoyance would likely drive them to a competing service, Kreps said.
"It's not going to be an on/off switch," she added. "But people will prefer the path of least resistance."
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