It was unclear whether TikTok would still be available in the U.S. on Sunday, as the company said it needed assurances from President Joe Biden's outgoing administration that the ban would not be enforced.
on Friday, The Supreme Court upheld the law. If ByteDance, the app's owner, doesn't sell it, it could effectively ban TikTok in the US. Because the law made it impossible to sell two days before it took effect (and ByteDance has repeatedly claimed it won't sell it), TikTok appears to have disappeared from app stores on Sunday, January 19.
Reports suggest it might. It stopped working at all. Because US companies are distributing, You will be prohibited from providing services that support maintenance or app updating.
January 19 is the day before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration and asked the Supreme Court. To delay the ban “to negotiate a decision to save the platform”.
Although the court did not agree with the delay. The Biden administration appears to want to leave TikTok's fate in Trump's hands. in the Friday White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden's position hasn't changed — namely, that TikTok should be there for Americans. But America's TikTok should be under other ownership that addresses national security concerns as determined by Congress,” he said. However, given the timing, Jean-Pierre said, “actions to implement the law must fall to the next administration.”
Similarly, Department of Justice statement Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco suggested that “the next phase of our efforts to ensure compliance with the law after it goes into effect on January 19th will be a process that will change over time.”
TikTok He responded with his statement. It suggests that it is not enough for the company and other service providers to continue offering the TikTok app. In TikTok's view, Biden and the DOJ “failed to provide the necessary clarity and assurance to key service providers to maintain TikTok's availability to more than 170 million Americans.”
The company said: “Unfortunately, TikTok will go dark on January 19th unless the Biden administration makes a definitive statement immediately to satisfy the worst-case providers who have been assured of non-enforcement.”
Jean-Pierre following TikTok's comments The company's statement was described as “a stunt”. The administration said it “sees no reason to take action against TikTok or other companies in the next few days before the Trump administration takes office on Monday.”
This post has been updated to reflect additional comments from the White House and reports that TikTok may not just be removed from app stores, but shut down entirely in the US.