On January 17, the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal by TikTok owners and upheld a law that requires the popular app to be blocked unless the Chinese ByteDance sells it to an American company.. US President-elect Donald Trump responded to the court verdict and said that he would soon make a decision on the operation of the media platform.
Trump announced this on the social network Truth Social and in a commentary for CNN. In particular, he noted that the decision of the Supreme Court was expected and everyone should respect it.
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In a comment to CNN, the new US president said that ultimately the decision will be made by him.
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Asked if he would take action to try to overturn the TikTok ban, Trump said he would decide soon..
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The new US president also confirmed that he had a conversation with Chinese President Xi Jingping. However, he said that it was "
Note that the idea of \u200b\u200bbanning TikTok in the United States was born during Trump’s first presidency.. This is also discussed in the decision of the Supreme Court.
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The court's decision comes after warnings from the Biden administration that the app poses a "
And already on the eve of the effective date of the decision, Biden made it clear that he would leave control over compliance with the TikTok ban to Trump. The platform should be banned on January 19, the day before his inauguration.
The publication notes that many questions arise about how the ban will work in practice, since there is no precedent for the United States to block a large social media platform. And how exactly the new government will ensure it remains unclear.
China has already figured out how to circumvent the TikTok ban in the US. Chinese officials are considering the possibility of acquiring the American division of TikTok by the director of Tesla, SpaceX and the social network X, billionaire Elon Musk..
The US is not the first state to ban TikTok. Previously, such a decision was made by a number of other countries.. In countries where TikTok has been banned, users often use a VPN to bypass the block and continue accessing content..