TikTok banned? How SC members voted in Congress on social media app

Some South Carolina congressional members voted to force Tik Tok’s sale in the United States or ban it. A bill that passed in the House and is moving to the Senate would effectively do so. Here’s how the seven S.C. representatives voted.

Only two S.C. members of congress voted against the bill, Democrat James Clyburn and Republican Nancy Mace, while the other five voted for it.

The bill cites safety and security concerns over the app and would require TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell it within 180 days or it would be banned on U.S. app stores. The bill passed 325-65, and will now head to the Senate.

Mace was one of 15 Republicans who voted no on the bill. She said on X, formerly Twitter, “Banning Tiktok is beating the same drum as other communist countries controlling what content we are able to see. Lets not give the government any more power to control social media.”

Congressman Jeff Duncan, Russell Fry, Ralph Norman, William Timmons and Joe Wilson all voted for the bill. Duncan tweeted “@tiktok_us is a national security threat. That’s it, that’s the tweet,” Wednesday morning.