Less than 24 hours after its closure, TikTok is already back online in the US. The short video platform announced this on Sunday (local time). Trump gave service providers the necessary assurance that they did not have to fear fines if they continued to cooperate (see video above).
“We have no choice, we have to save TikTok,” future US President Donald Trump said at a rally. The app, which is especially popular among young people, and its Chinese parent company ByteDance are suspected of espionage due to its proximity to the government in Beijing. That is why the US Congress passed a bipartisan law last year requiring ByteDance to sell its US operations by January 19.
Half the population on TikTok
After the Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit against the ban, TikTok was initially shut down over the weekend. This affected 170 million users, half of the US population.
Trump now wants to give the company a 90-day extension to find a resolution to the dispute. He aims for a 50 percent stake in an American company. The government in Beijing was cautious about this. Companies must make such decisions “independently”. A partial sale would probably have to be approved anyway.
There has been recent resistance within Trump’s Republican Party. “Now that the law has come into force, there is no legal basis for an ‘extension’ of the period. In order for TikTok to come back online in the future, ByteDance must agree to a sale that meets the law’s requirements for a qualified divestiture by severing all ties between TikTok and communist China,” wrote Senators Tom Cotton and Pete Ricketts.
Source: Krone
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