- Apple and Google removed TikTok from their app stores Saturday night, complying with a law requiring China’s ByteDance to divest the social app or see it face an effective ban in the U.S.
- The Apple App Store and the Google Play store’s removal of TikTok means people in the U.S. can no longer download the popular short-form video app on their devices. TikTok also shut down the service.
- The app’s delisting comes after the Supreme Court on Friday decided unanimously to uphold the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.
TikTok’s statement that it would go dark and characterized it as a “stunt.”
“We have laid out our position clearly and straightforwardly: actions to implement this law will fall to the next administration,” Jean-Pierre said. “So TikTok and other companies should take up any concerns with them.“
Trump told NBC News on Saturday that he would “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day extension of the Sunday deadline, and that he would “probably announce” a decision on Monday.
“I think that would be, certainly, an option that we look at,” Trump said in the phone interview. “The 90-day extension is something that will be most likely done, because it’s appropriate. You know, it’s appropriate. We have to look at it carefully. It’s a very big situation.”
Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI on Saturday submitted a bid for TikTok that would result in the AI-powered search engine startup combine with TikTok’s U.S. operations and new capital partners, CNBC reported.
Businessman Frank McCourt’s internet advocacy group Project Liberty announced on Jan. 9, that it had submitted a proposal to buy TikTok from ByteDance at undisclosed terms. McCourt told CNBC on Friday that “we, I believe, are the only bidder” that meets the necessary criteria of disentangling the technology from the Chinese algorithm.
This makes the Chinese automotive angle very very interesting to me. I might have to adjust my thesis on that particular situation
This felt like a simple case of America being afraid of foreign influence and trying to be puff their chests out during an elections period. Russians influencing elections is fine though 👀
Agree that one less narcissistic platform is a good thing. But in my experience TikTok is a cuddly teddy compared to the absolute vitriolic carnage that you see on Twitter/X and its run by a ‘foreigner’ too 😅 I deleted X years ago but it’s just full of hate and I was far better off for it.
Generally, people need to be more objective and open to ideas generally rather than silence those they disagree with. Open discourse is something as a species we are simply terrible at.
What does this ban achieve really? Banning a platform like TikTok but not others just seems to fit one specific agenda and be counterproductive on the whole to me 🤷🏼♂️
Ban so called influencers instead! Not the platform 😂 they’re so damn irritating.
Sarah said “I personally don’t like tiktok but unfortunately because it’s Chinese so it should be ban,not a good thing to do, always politics wins over morality, if u see the case on !@#$ hub, how they used under age children, groomed and now they want their videos down but no one listens, how easily at home videos made and uploaded without consent , and no one listens, but I guess morality have no place in politics, hate towards China and it’s success is important, that trial against tiktok ceo and the questions asked were hellarious, that shows that it’s political agenda, that’s it.”
Hardware
“This is fairly shocking that a country that preaches “freedom” is actually not free.
For me this would be a problem if it was banned in the UK as I make some money off of it. Not a lot but a nice small side hustle selling my prints in the shop.
I wonder if the US will still be paid from the creator fund this month or not.
And that’s one reason I think it’s been banned is the US gov don’t like people making side income like this”
Doramah
This felt like a simple case of America being afraid of foreign influence and trying to be puff their chests out during an elections period. Russians influencing elections is fine though 👀
Agree that one less narcissistic platform is a good thing. But in my experience TikTok is a cuddly teddy compared to the absolute vitriolic carnage that you see on Twitter/X and its run by a ‘foreigner’ too 😅 I deleted X years ago but it’s just full of hate and I was far better off for it.
Generally, people need to be more objective and open to ideas generally rather than silence those they disagree with. Open discourse is something as a species we are simply terrible at.
What does this ban achieve really? Banning a platform like TikTok but not others just seems to fit one specific agenda and be counterproductive on the whole to me 🤷🏼♂️
Ban so called influencers instead! Not the platform 😂 they’re so damn irritating.
This makes the Chinese automotive angle very very interesting to me. I might have to adjust my thesis on that particular situation
