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US lawmakers tune out TikTok lobbying to advance bill to ban app 众议院能源与商业委员会以50-0的投票通过这份跨党派法案，无视了有数千名TikTok用户参与的游说运动。
House committee approves bipartisan legislation after briefing on data risks to American users. 6park.com
一个有影响力的美国国会委员会通过一项法案：除非TikTok的中国母公司将其剥离，否则该视频分享平台将从各应用商店下架。此举等于无视了有数千名TikTok用户参与的游说运动。 6park.com 6park.comThe House energy and commerce committee approved the bipartisan bill 50-0 on Thursday after a classified briefing from officials about the risks the app posed to Americans because of its ownership by the Chinese group ByteDance. 6park.com周四，众议院能源与商业委员会(House Committee on Energy and Commerce)以50-0的投票通过这份跨党派法案，此前官员们做了一次秘密简报，内容是该应用程序由中国企业字节跳动(ByteDance)所有可能给美国人带来的风险。 6park.com 6park.comUS security officials say Beijing could access the personal data of the 170mn Americans who use TikTok because of Chinese laws requiring domestic companies to hand over information to the government. 6park.com美国安全官员表示，北京方面可以获取使用TikTok的1.7亿美国人的个人数据，因为中国法律要求国内企业向政府提交信息。 6park.com 6park.comIn the hours before the vote, TikTok used its app to urge users to call their congressional representatives, providing telephone numbers for the relevant offices based on the zip codes that users had registered. Congressional offices reported being swamped by calls. 6park.com在投票前的几个小时内，TikTok利用其应用敦促用户致电国会代表，并根据用户注册的邮政编码提供所在地区议员办公室的电话号码。国会办公室声称已被电话淹没。 6park.com 6park.comAfter the vote, TikTok said lawmakers were “attempting to strip 170mn Americans of their constitutional right to free expression”. 6park.com投票后，TikTok表示，国会立法者“试图剥夺1.7亿美国人的宪法赋予的自由表达权利”。 6park.com 6park.comIn another boost for the legislation, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said it was another important bill to “take on China”. Republican House majority leader Steve Scalise said he would bring the bill to the House floor for a full vote next week. 6park.com该法案得到的另一重支持来自共和党众议院议长迈克•约翰逊(Mike Johnson)，他表示这是“对抗中国”的又一项重要法案。共和党众议院多数党领袖史蒂夫•斯卡利斯(Steve Scalise)表示，他将于下周将该法案提交众议院进行全体投票。 6park.com 6park.comJohnson’s backing and the unanimous vote suggest that the bill will have little trouble passing the House. Supporters hope that will give the measure momentum in the Senate where previous efforts to curtail TikTok have struggled over concerns that include the impact on free speech. 6park.com约翰逊的支持和一致的投票结果表明，该法案在众议院通过不会有什么困难。支持者希望这将为该法案在参议院造势。此前遏制TikTok的努力在参议院遇到阻碍，担忧对言论自由造成影响是原因之一。 6park.com 6park.comThe White House is also backing the legislation, which was written with the help of National Security Council officials. 6park.com白宫也支持这项立法，该法案是在国家安全委员会(National Security Council)官员的帮助下撰写的。 6park.com 6park.com“Clearly the alignment between the administration, both parties on the hill and the intelligence community ensured this effort to oppose the bill failed spectacularly today,” said Eric Sayers, a security expert at the American Enterprise Institute. 6park.com美国企业研究所(American Enterprise Institute)的安全专家埃里克•塞耶斯(Eric Sayers)说：“很明显，政府、国会两党和情报界之间的一致意见确保了反对该法案的努力今天以惨败告终。” 6park.com 6park.comMikie Sherrill, a retired US navy helicopter pilot and Democratic lawmaker on the House China committee, said this week that Congress needed to ignore the political implications of dealing with the hugely popular app in order to protect American national security. 6park.com美国海军退役直升机飞行员、众议院中国委员会中的民主党议员米基•谢里尔(Mikie Sherrill)本周表示，处置这款广受欢迎的应用会有政治后果，但国会应该无视这些后果，以保护美国的国家安全。 6park.com 6park.com“I’ve heard far too many times that it’s too popular, or it’s too big to tackle,” Sherrill said. “I’m sick and tired of hearing that argument when we know that the right thing to do for our country is to tackle this problem.” 6park.com“这样的话我听过太多次了，说它太受欢迎了或太大了，我们不能处置它。”谢里尔说，“听到这种话让我感觉厌倦和腻味，因为我们知道解决这个问题对我们的国家而言是正确的事情。” 6park.com 6park.comTikTok has responded to critics by pointing to its $1.5bn investment in “Project Texas”, a corporate restructuring designed to wall off US user data from China. 6park.comTikTok对批评人士的回应是，指出其已在“德克萨斯计划”(Project Texas)上投资15亿美元，该计划旨在对该公司进行重组，在美国用户数据与中国之间建起一道隔离墙。 6park.com 6park.comTikTok has argued to its users that Congress wants to ban the app, a claim that sparked pushback from lawmakers who stressed that they were happy for it to survive as long as it was no longer under Chinese ownership. 6park.comTikTok一直在对其用户说，国会想要封禁这款应用。这一说法引发了议员们的反击，他们强调，只要TikTok不再由中资所有，他们很愿意让它继续存在。 6park.com 6park.comAhead of the vote, Mike Gallagher, the Republican chair of the China committee, said TikTok users should view the effort as “surgery designed to remove the tumour and thereby save the patient in the process”. 6park.com在投票前，众议院中国委员会主席、共和党人迈克•加拉格尔(Mike Gallagher)表示，TikTok用户应该将这一努力视为“一场旨在切除肿瘤、从而挽救患者的手术”。 6park.com 6park.comA big question is whether the Senate will back the legislation as previous bills have stumbled. Emily Kilcrease, a technology and trade expert at the Center for a New American Security think-tank who sees a legitimate national security rationale for tackling TikTok, said the question of free speech could remain a hurdle. 6park.com参议院会不会支持这项立法还要打一个大大的问号，因为之前的法案都不顺利。智库新美国安全中心(Center for a New American Security)的技术和贸易问题专家埃米丽•基尔克里斯(Emily Kilcrease)认为处置TikTok有合理的国家安全理由，但她说言论自由问题可能仍构成障碍。 6park.com 6park.com“The basic problem is that, no matter how you construct the bill or executive order text, the business that is targeted is one whose core function is related to speech, and so there is not an easy get out of jail free card when it comes to the speech issues,” she said. 6park.com她说：“基本的问题是，无论你如何编写这个法案或行政令的文本，所针对企业的核心功能就是与言论有关的，因此，在言论（自由）问题上，不容易获得免罪卡。” 6park.com 6park.comThe bill would ban app stores from distributing TikTok unless ByteDance divests the app within 180 days after passage. It permits ByteDance to bring a legal challenge within 165 days of the bill becoming law. 6park.com该法案将禁止TikTok在应用商店上架，除非字节跳动在法案通过后180天内从TikTok退股。该法案允许字节跳动在法案成为法律后165天内采取法律行动挑战该法。
A powerful US congressional committee has passed a bill that would remove TikTok from app stores unless its Chinese owner divests the video-sharing platform, brushing off a lobbying campaign that had enlisted thousands of its users. 6park.com
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