Montana Just Banned TikTok!
16.04.2023 - 20:31
/ perezhilton.com
Montana just became the first American state to ban TikTok after its legislature voted to give final approval to a bill nixing the social media app’s presence within its borders.
On Friday afternoon, lawmakers in the Montana House of Representatives voted 54-43 to ban TikTok from all personal smartphones and tech devices within the western state. This makes Montana the first US state to take such stark action against the Chinese-owned social media app. And they may not be the last…
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The ban is not in effect quite yet, however. The bill — which is known by politicians in the State Legislature Building (pictured above) as SB419 — must still be signed by Governor Greg Gianforte before it is made into a law.
If Gianforte chooses to sign the bill, the law would go into effect statewide in January of next year. Gianforte, a Republican, has not yet indicated whether he would sign such a bill. When asked about the possibility that he would make the TikTok ban official, his spokesperson Brooke Stroyke told CNN:
For what it’s worth, Gianforte has previously banned TikTok from all state-owned official government devices. He did that last December. Then, in January of this year, he publicly urged the Montana University System to follow suit with their own administrative TikTok ban for official educational devices — which it did.
This new law as passed would prohibit TikTok from operating anywhere within Montana state lines. That also means the app would be barred from app stores within the state and unavailable for download by people living within Montana’s borders. Per multiple media reports, penalties for TikTok if it were to operate in Montana would range “up to
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