On Sunday, TIKTOK users were temporarily silenced after the Supreme Court unanimously Handed a new law This requires the Chinese owner to apply social media to sell American Tiktok business or a ban on the country level.
However, within hours of the closure, President -elect Donald Trump announced that he intends to issue an executive order that would give Tiktok the mother, a 90 -day extension to find a certified buyer before the common video sharing platform appears permanently.
Trump, who will take the constitutional oath on Monday, announced his decision on his position on social media, the social truth, saying that his order “will extend the period from time before the prohibition of the law becomes valid” and “asserting that there will be no responsibility for any company that helped prevent Tiktok from dark before my request.”
Tiktok immediately announced that it was about to restore the platform. “We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and confirmation for our service providers that they will not face any penalties that provide Tactok for more than 170 million Americans and allow more than 7 million small companies to prosper,” the company said. In a statement.
By Midmoring Sunday, the app returned online.
The ban, as it was yearned, will make it illegal for application stores such as Apple and Google Play to distribute Tiktok or update updates on the social media application. Companies that do not adhere to civil sanctions of $ 5,000 for each user.
In the face of turning off, millions of users of the application expressed their lack of certification, sadness, anger and challenge, with many farewell publishing messages and other funerals; While critics argued that this is a blow to freedom of expression.
“I am upset,” he said Joy Solsky II26 -year -old model, actress and photographer. “I have my conspiracy theories about the reason for its decline. Kindly or suppress ideas and views different from life that people can share without interference in censorship, and this is what the real problem.”
The Daily Mail, the British media, has quickly announced that it will launch a new center for the short video content on its main page in an attempt to fill the Tiktok Void.
Tiktok has been unconfirmed since President Trump moved at that time to close it in 2020, pointing to national security concerns. Trump and others have caused the possibility that the owner of Tiktok bytedance will help the Chinese government by sharing the data it collects from more than 100 million American users, or include malware in the application or help in spreading infiltrated information.
Kate Rawan of the Center for Democracy and Technology described the Supreme Court’s decision “unprecedented” in a statement, saying that the ban “harms freedom to express hundreds of millions of Tijook users in this country and around the world. Individuals use the application to create information, to exchange information, comment on their news, and comment on their current works – this is the type of expressing the first expression.”
Many companies argued that Tiktok was a decisive alternative to Instagram and Shorts on YouTube, which helped develop their brands and trade leadership.
“For brands, companies, artists, and creators, Tiktok is more than just a platform, it is a profession launch platform, a development center for cultural trends and a vital channel to communicate with consumers. Tiktok has become indispensable in music professionals, the universe in Global Companists, Mailling Compans, MAILLY, benefit.
Before leaving his post, President Biden stressed that he did not plan to enforce the embargo before the new administration took office.
The employee writer Andrea Chang contributed to this report.