The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The goal of this bill is simple: to force TikTok to divest from ByteDance — its Beijing-based parent corporation that exists under the full control of the Chinese Communist Party — or be banned in the United States.

This is the latest chapter in the battle to expose TikTok’s obvious threats to our national security, with multiple governments both across the country and the world moving to ban TikTok from government-issued devices and networks. Consider TikTok’s data-based and ideological threats: News continues to break regarding the Chinese-backed social media network’s ability to collect private data (such as biometric identifiers including voiceprints and faceprints), indoctrinate American users, and provide the CCP with direct access to supposedly private information while bypassing Apple and Google’s security systems.