Can the US Learn Anything from the Indian Experience with TikTok?

March 26 :
A law that, if approved, would prohibit the Chinese short-form video app TikTok unless its American business is sold to a non-Chinese corporation was decisively approved by the US House of Representatives last week, 352 to 65. Republican Mike Gallagher and Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi, an Indian American, co-led the nonpartisan bill in the house.

The US Senate may or may not take up the bill and, if it does, it is anticipated that President Biden will sign it into law. The app is receiving a lot of support from American TikTok producers, many of whom made millions of dollars from their viral videos on the platform. India, which nearly 4 years ago outlawed TikTok for all 200 million of its users in addition to 58 other apps with Chinese origins—a total that has since increased tenfold to over 500. However, as US lawmakers agonise over a decision that would impact 150 million users, prominent figures in their home media are criticising