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Last week, a U.S. federal appeals court upheld a law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok in the United States or face a ban. The app is used by 170 million Americans. The app is used ...
TikTok will be banned in the United States on Jan. 19, 2025, after a federal appeals court rejected its bid to overturn the ban that President Biden signed in April. The law states that if TikTok ...
Users can create, post and interact with videos on the app. TikTok is popular for its scrolling algorithm and allows users to post videos between three seconds and 10 minutes long.
The ban was blocked by US District Judge Donald W. Molloy on December 1, 2023, as he stated the ban "infringes on the Constitutional right of users and businesses". Due to the block, the ban did not come into effect as planned. [95] On January 2, 2024, Montana filed a notice to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth ...
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.
If none of these happen, and the ban does come into force, the US would not be the first major market for TikTok to cut off the video-sharing app. In 2020, India issued a complete ban of the app ...
When it appeals the ruling, TikTok could also ask for a stay — essentially, a pause — of the law while the Supreme Court reviews the case, which could mean TikTok avoids the January ban ...
On 21 March 2023, the federal government began a review of the app. [124] 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. [125] On 4 April 2023, TikTok was banned on all government devices, including the mobile phones of politicians. [126]