President Biden signed the TikTok ban into law Wednesday, forcing the popular social media app's owner ByteDance to either sell the platform in the next 12 months or have it banned within the United States.
The clock is now truly running in the effort to ban social media platform TikTok in the United States.owner ByteDance to either sell the supremely popular platform or have the app banned for U.S. users into law Wednesday as part of a larger bill that also included foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel. The provision gives ByteDance nine months to arrange a sale and gives Biden the option of granting the Chinese tech firm an additional 90 days to complete it at his discretion.
Discussions of banning TikTok within American borders have proliferated for years dating back to the Trump administration. Former President Trump openly flighted banning the app during his time in office Critics of the app pointed to the possibility of American user data being turned over to Chinese government officials due to a law requiring companies based in China to submit internal data if the government asks for it.
While the new law requires ByteDance to sell TikTok within the one-year timeframe, that doesn’t necessarily mean that a sale of the app would include TikTok’s algorithms, arguably the most valuable asset the company holds., calling the development “a ban on TikTok and a ban on you and your voice” and “a disappointing moment” but not “a defining one.”
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