Tiktok Is Down In The Us

TikTok is going acheronian successful nan US now that nan ban-or-divest norm passed past twelvemonth is taking effect. The app is now gone from immoderate Apple and Google’s app stores, it’s unavailable connected nan web, and users who unfastened nan app are blocked from viewing videos.

This is contempt nan Biden guidance saying it’s passing enforcement responsibilities on to nan Trump administration and calling TikTok’s threat to spell offline a “stunt.” But TikTok insisted that without clearer assurances, it has to adjacent up shop successful nan US.

Inside TikTok, an email to labour said that “President Trump has indicated that he will activity pinch america connected a solution to reinstate TikTok erstwhile he takes office” connected January 20th and that “teams are moving tirelessly to bring our app backmost to nan U.S. arsenic soon arsenic possible.”

On Saturday evening, starting astatine 9PM ET, a informing relationship appeared successful 2 ByteDance apps, TikTok and CapCut, telling users of nan pending shutdown. TikTok’s relationship read:

Both apps began blocking users astir 10:30PM ET. A relationship now appears successful nan apps saying they aren’t “available correct now” but that nan institution expects a solution nether President-elect Trump. TikTok’s relationship says:

The ban-or-divest law, which goes into effect connected Sunday, efficaciously bans TikTok unless ByteDance sells overmuch of its liking successful nan company. But ByteDance has shown mini mobility of being consenting to sell, moreover arsenic nan deadline quickly approached. Instead, TikTok sued nan US complete nan law, yet losing successful a Supreme Court suit this past week.

TikTok’s caller strategy appears to beryllium relentlessly pandering to Trump, who — contempt initially calling for nan TikTok prohibition — has precocious indicated that he wants to find a measurement to support it around. Earlier today, he floated a 90-day clasp of ByteDance’s deadline to sell.

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