Senate Intelligence Democrat says Trump’s TikTok delay is against the law
China’s ByteDance, the parent of TikTok, has said that it’s in talks with the US government regarding a potential solution for TikTok US. This comes after US President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order to delay the implementation of a law that will require ByteDance to comply with US regulations on the sale of TikTok.
The senator says Trump’s delay is against the law
US Senator Ed Markey has called US President Donald Trump’s extension of TikTok’s ban “illegal and forces tech companies to once again decide between risking ruined legal liability or taking TikTok offline”. Markey added that Trump should go through the Congress to pass his bill to extend the deadline. “Instead, Trump should go through Congress to extend the deadline,” Markey said.
Trump gives TikTok another sell-by deadline
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week delaying enforcement of a new law banning TikTok and other social media apps from operating in the country. However, experts said Trump’s delays did not halt TikTok’s ban, meaning it is still technically illegal for the app to operate in the US with ties to China.
How to get TikTok back on your phone if you deleted it
TikTok users in India cannot download the popular video-sharing app from the App Store as it doesn’t recognise the country they’re in. TikTok Lite is only available on India’s App Store. Users will be forced to use a VPN to connect to TikTok’s website from a VPN hotspot. TikTok and other ByteDance applications are not available on the App Store in India.
If you deleted TikTok after its ban, can you get it back on your phone?
TikTok is back on the app store, an ByteDance spokesperson has confirmed. This comes after US President Donald Trump tweeted about TikTok being reinstated to the app store. “This could help them stay on the good side of the Trump administration and…address the financial hit they’re taking by not hosting TikTok on app stores,” the spokesperson said.
Trump provides immunity to tech firms when he signs an executive order pausing the TikTok ban
US FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said, “TikTok’s threat to national security”. Carr also wrote about protecting US from security threats emanating from China, including by addressing “TikTok’s threat to national security”. On his first day in office, US President Donald Trump ordered the Attorney General to not enforce a law on American companies doing business with other countries for 75 days.
Tiktok is not the only ByteDance app that is gone
TikTok and its parent ByteDance’s other apps have disappeared from the US, a day after it received a nationwide ban over the app’s alleged violations of US laws. ByteDance was required to either sell the US operations or face a nationwide ban. TikTok has urged US President Joe Biden to provide assurance that it wouldn’t enforce the law.
TikTok is unavailable in the US and not available from the app stores
The US President Joe Biden has suggested TikTok to raise its concerns with President-elect Donald Trump about a new law which requires apps to remove TikTok content from their platforms. Biden said that he’d like to know how TikTok plans on complying with the law. TikTok has asked Apple and Google not to remove the app from their app stores.
TikTok service providers risk billions of dollars in penalties for uploading it back online
TikTok and many other ByteDance-owned apps were removed from US App Store and Google Play Store as of Sunday, after the US Congress passed a law banning the platform. The law also banned companies from providing data hosting services to TikTok. It was passed after ByteDance failed to obtain a court order to restore TikTok in the US.
Nobody knows what happens next after the Supreme Court ruled on TikTok
US Supreme Court has upheld the ban on TikTok in the US, stating that the app is a “great source of community, expression, and means of engagement”. TikTok had argued that it violates the freespeech rights of both users and the company, which it took all the way to the Supreme Court. It will take effect on Sunday.