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TikTok ban author denies legislation will affect VPNs

By Christopher Hutton
Published March 29, 2023 8:32pm ET
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TikTok ban author denies legislation will affect VPNs
Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., arrives to vote on a bill to expand private care for military veterans as an alternative to the troubled Veterans Affairs health system, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 23, 2018. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The author of a bipartisan bill that would allow the Commerce Department to ban TikTok said the bill would not restrict the use of VPNs after speculation arose online that it would.

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