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This Resolution urges the United States Congress to pass the "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act" (H.R.7521), a bill that would require ByteDance, the Beijing-headquartered parent company of the popular video-sharing platform TikTok, to sell its ownership of the app or face a nationwide ban in the United States. The resolution highlights significant national security concerns, citing TikTok's ties to the Chinese Communist Party, which under Chinese law can compel companies to share data with the government. This data could potentially be used for intelligence gathering, intellectual property theft, or to compromise software on millions of devices, as warned by the FBI. The resolution also notes that ByteDance has refused to cease data flow to the Chinese government and points to TikTok's addictive algorithm and the threat it poses to the privacy of young adults, who constitute a large portion of its user base. The resolution emphasizes that this bipartisan legislation has already advanced through a Congressional committee, and its passage is seen as crucial for protecting the nation's cybersecurity.