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DeSantis also signed another TikTok ban, approving HB 379 on May 9 to prohibit students and teachers from using TikTok on district-owned devices in public schools, as well as block anyone from ...
"The voices of over 170 million Americans here in the U.S. and around the world will be silenced on Jan. 19, 2025, unless the TikTok ban is halted." More: Will TikTok be banned?
TikTok's lawyers told the court that a ban would have a "staggering" impact on the free speech of its US users, and creators opposing the law also voiced concerns about its impact on their work.
The result was that TikTok owner ByteDance—which initially planned on selling a small portion of TikTok to an American company—agreed to divest TikTok to prevent a ban in the United States and in other countries where restrictions are also being considered due to privacy concerns, which themselves are mostly related to its ownership by a ...
A slow decline – and an exodus to rivals. The law clearly bans Apple and Google from letting you receive any updates to the TikTok the app, meaning that over time it would gradually become more ...
On 21 March 2023, the federal government began a review of the app. [125] The review is expected to ban TikTok on all official government devices. It has been reported that some politicians are using burner phones due to the ban. [126] On 4 April 2023, TikTok was banned on all government devices, including the mobile phones of politicians. [127]
The House passed a bill on Wednesday that could lead to the banning of TikTok in the United States. Here is what we know.
The law specifies that, in the absence of a “qualified divestiture” by ByteDance, the TikTok ban will go into effect 270 days (nine months) after its enactment — which would be Jan. 19, 2025.