TikTok is no longer available in the US

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TikTok is no longer available in the US

The switch has flipped on the TikTok ban. TikTok’s app stoped working and was removed from the App Store and

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Play on Saturday night just hours before the January 19, ban was set to take effect.

People who have previously installed the app were instead greeted with a pop-up. “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now,” it says. “A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now. We are fortunate that president Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned.”

The notice gives users the option to close the app or “learn more,” which directs to a page on TikTok’s website with

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. Existing users can also download their data from the website.

Following the passage of the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Apps Act” by President Biden, TikTok had six months to divest itself from ******** parent company ByteDance. The company opted to fight the law, bringing a case to the Supreme Court that its First Amendment rights were violated by the measure. The Supreme Court was not swayed.

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, Apple’s App Store,

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’s Play Store and any other app marketplace must remove TikTok or be subject to a fine of $5,000 for every user in the US that downloads the app. Internet hosting providers are also expected to comply, which means accessing the platform’s short-form videos from a web browser is out of the question.

Multiple attempts have been made to ban TikTok in the US over concerns of spying, but this is the first time one has stuck. President-elect Trump was a major of supporter of a ban during his first term in office and, ironically, TikTok’s only hope of surviving after his second inauguration. Trump called for the Supreme Court to take up TikTok’s appeal, and now that the court’s made its decision, the problem falls to the President-elect to “fix,” if he choses to.

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