TikTok says US House Bill to ban app would 'trample free speech', user data concerns continue ahead of Senate vote

TikTok on Sunday repeated its free-speech concerns about a bill passed by the House of Representatives that would ban the popular social media app in the U.S. if Chinese owner ByteDance did not sell its stake within a year. The House passed the legislation on Saturday by a margin of 360 to 58. It now moves to the Senate where it could be taken up for a vote in the coming days. President Joe Biden has previously said he would sign the legislation on TikTok. Many U.S. lawmakers from both the Republican and Democratic parties and the Biden administration say…