Montana lawmakers passed a bill this week banning the social media app TikTok from operating in the state.
The measure will now go to Republican Govenor Greg Gianforte for his signature.
Montana currently already bans the app on state-owned devices.
From Newsmax:
The bill's supporters "have admitted that they have no feasible plan for operationalizing this attempt to censor American voices and that the bill's constitutionality will be decided by the courts," Oberwetter said. TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese tech company ByteDance, has been under intense scrutiny over concerns it could hand over user data to the Chinese government or push pro-Beijing propaganda and misinformation on the platform. Leaders at the FBI, CIA and numerous lawmakers of both parties have raised those concerns but have not presented any evidence that it has happened. Supporters of a ban point to two Chinese laws that compel companies in the country to cooperate with the government on state intelligence work.
