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With a TikTok ban seemingly imminent, TikTok users have spent the past few days fleeing the Chinese social media app”,” trying to do so and bid them farewell from the bottom of my heart”.” But it seems unlikely that TikTok will disappear on January 19.
Supreme Court officials hope that the court will uphold the order that requires ByteDance to sell TikTok’s business in the US or face a ban on January 19. But it seems that there is no desire to implement the order that was passed with more than twofold support last year. Incoming President Donald Trump, who asked the Supreme Court to has said he wants to “keep” the program.
yesterday, The Washington Post that Trump is “considering” signing an executive order soon after he takes office on January 20, “which would delay the implementation of a ban or sale of TikTok for 60 to 90 days.” Now, NBC News An unnamed “White House official” says they don’t want TikTok banned on their watch.
“Administrations have decided to leave the implementation of the law banning TikTok in the US to the incoming Trump administration, officials said, not following them in the last 36 hours of President Joe Biden.
“Given that it will take effect on the weekend just one day before the inauguration, it will be up to other administrations to implement it,” the White House official said.
Where is this coming from on TikTok? I don’t know.
Under the law, Apple and Google must remove the app from their stores or face billions of dollars in penalties. Unnamed Biden Administration officials say they won’t force a walkout, which doesn’t mean the two, risk-averse, companies would choose to ignore federal law. Especially when the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party sent letters to Google CEO Sundar Photosi and Apple CEO Tim Cook a month ago. those of their duty to follow the same law.
Even if Apple and Google remove the app from their stores, TikTok can still work for millions of people who have already downloaded it. But, report earlier this week The Information indicated that TikTok is preparing to produce Sunday if the Supreme Court will follow the order. Neither Apple, Google nor TikTok – all of which are awaiting the Supreme Court’s definitive decision – have not answered questions or publicly commented on any of this.
But the desire to miss TikTok on American phones seems to be emerging quickly. Senator Ed Markey, who voted for the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act last year, introduced legislation this week that would extend the ban on the program. In he said that “the ban was continued without sufficient consideration of the serious consequences it would have on the 170 million Americans who use the platform.” Senators Cory Booker and Ron Wyden, respectively on the bill last April, he contacted him asking for an extension, as did Representative Rho Khanna (who did not refund the money).
If TikTok gets another brand refresh, there have been several options floating around to keep the app online in the US. This includes finding an American buyer, refreshing or simply get Trump to instruct DoJ officials to do it .
If it all seems confusing, that’s because it is. Officials in both groups have been issuing dire warnings for months The national security threat posed by TikTok. But, now that the ban seems to be a few days away, no one wants to be blamed because they are the ones lifting it.
