The bill is explicitly limited to TikTok/ByteDance, so tinfoil hatting and casting this as some broad power grab (especially in light of Biden's recent executive order on the subject) seems disingenuous.
Alas, the bill the committee voted on today was H.R. 1153, not H.R. 503. I'd feel a lot better about it if it were limited to just Tiktok.
This bill is vague and overly broad to say the least. It applies to:
And no, it's not that they're not paying enough
Yes, it is. I guarantee there is a wage at which all available hotel staff positions would be filled.
TikTok was originally an American company called Musical.ly. It was bought by ByteDance and rebranded as TikTok. If TikTok's Chinese ownership is such a problem, why was a Chinese company allowed to buy an American company in the first place?
Huh? Musical.ly was also a Chinese company. They had an office in Santa Monica, but it was headquartered in Shanghai.
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