The majority of House members under the age of 50 voted in favor of the bill to ban TikTok - but one dissenting vote came from Maxwell Frost, the sole member of Gen Z in Congress.
If the bill passes through the Senate and is signed by President Joe Biden (who has indicated that he will approve the legislation) it would require TikTok's China-based parent company, ByteDance to sell the app or else face being banned in the United States.
"I am a NO on the TikTok bill we are about to vote on," Frost tweeted Wednesday morning. "I believe the bill does set TikTok up to be banned, there are first amendment issues I see with taking away a platform that over 170 million Americans use, and this won't fix the serious issues we have with data privacy."
Recent polling suggests that most Americans don't support banning the popular video-sharing app. Forty-one percent of adults under 30 opposed the ban in a December Pew poll, while just 29% supported a ban.
The idea of TikTok ban was most popular among adults 65 and older - with 49% supporting the ban. Across all age cohorts, only 38% of Americans supported a ban, while 35% were unsure and 27% were opposed.
This data stands in stark contrast to Congress itself, where the bill passed the House 352-65, with bipartisan approval. Twenty-three of the dissenting votes came from congress people under the age of 50, while 41 dissenting votes came from members in their 50s, 60s and 70s.
Of the 12 octogenarians in the House, just one voted against the Tik Tok ban. James Clyburn, 83, told NBC News that it was important to think about how a Tik Tok ban might affect the youth vote in the coming elections.
"I do believe that if we are going to do this, we need to do it for everybody in every way," he said.
