TikTok Must Rely Now on Trump and Supreme Court to Avoid Ban

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Congress passed a bill which could lead to the banning of TikTok within the United States. It’s still not time to say goodbye, at least not yet.

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12/06/2024 Update: After ByteDance filed a lawsuit to stop “TikTok ban,” a panel of DC Circuit Court of Appeals judges decided to allow the”TikTok ban,”to continue.

Uphold the controversial law (19459079) TikTok has a little more than a month left to find an American buyer, or to get the law overturned by the deadline of January 19. The company now has two options.

TikTok may appeal the case before the Supreme Court. This is in their playbook. In a statement

Bloomberg reported
that TikTok’s spokesperson Michael Hughes had written, “The Supreme Court has an established historical record of protecting Americans’ right to free speech, and we expect they will do just that on this important constitutional issue.”

TikTok might also seek help from the new administration. Donald Trump has changed his mind about the TikTok Ban since signing an executive Order attempting to force ByteDance choose between a ban or a sale in 2020. He posted to Truth Social: “If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business. I don’t want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better. They are a true Enemy of the People!”

Coincidentally ByteDance Investor Jeff Yass

During this year’s elections, Republicans
received more than $46 million in contributions.

Trump will take office a day after the ban is implemented, but he can choose the way the law is enforced. A relaxed enforcement may leave the app store and both apps in a difficult position for future administrations.

The law currently allows the president to extend the 90-day deadline if there is significant progress being made in a sale. However, due to the Biden administration signing the bill, it’s unlikely that this deadline will be extended until Trump is elected. The original text of this article is below:


President Biden signed into law a bill
which could lead to the banning of TikTok within the United States.

The House of Representatives approved its original bill in March (19459079)

The Senate finally passed it
on Tuesday as part of an $95 billion package of aid for Ukraine, Israel and Gaza. The bill was approved by both chambers with bipartisan support, and signed shortly thereafter by the president. TikTok is now dead in the U.S., right? Not quite.

What is the TikTok Ban Bill? This bill does not ban TikTok. The app will not disappear immediately from your phone, even though the bill has become law.

The law requires that ByteDance (TikTok’s Chinese parent company) divests its stake in TikTok to an American companynine months after the bill becomes law. Biden may extend the timeline by 90 days if ByteDance is making progress in selling TikTok. The original House bill only had a six-month timeline. ByteDance would be banned in the U.S. if it refused. This tactic is similar to one used by the Trump administration in 2020 : Trump signed a executive order that forced ByteDance choose between being banned or a sale. Biden’s administration revoked the executive order after it was blocked by the courts and replaced it with a directive to review other apps that might compromise American security.

Congressmen are growing increasingly concerned about TikTok’s direct links to China, which could put American users’ personal data at risk. ByteDance employees gathered the IP addresses of American Journalists from their TikTok account in late 2022to find out the source of leaks. In Junewe learned that TikTok stored some data on U.S. creators in China after initially claiming to keep all American data in the United States.

TikTok is unlikely to scrape your smartphone for more data than other apps. Congress isn’t concerned about your privacy. The government is concerned that unlike Meta and Google apps, the data you provide is not being stolen by an American company, but is instead potentially leaked to a foreign country, on

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