Tik Tok says Sunday will be dark unless Biden enters.
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TikTok said its services would go dark on Sunday, without guaranteeing the Biden administration would not be punished. Apple, google And if other service providers support the app.
“Unless the Biden administration makes an immediate statement to satisfy the most critical service providers, TikTok will unfortunately be forced to go dark on January 19,” TikTok said. In the statement on friday.
According to the statement, TikTok’s US user base, which the company says is over 170 million, will not be able to access the service on Sundays when they open the app or website.
TikTok made the statement after the Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Friday that parent company ByteDance would uphold a law requiring carriers to stop supporting the app in the US if it fails to “effectively decommission” the app by Sunday. As a result, Apple, Google and Oracle If they fail to follow the law, they can be severely punished.
“Today’s statements by both the Biden White House and the Department of Justice fail to provide the necessary transparency and assurance to service providers who are critical to continuing to provide TikTok to more than 170 million Americans,” TikTok said in a statement.
However, Biden’s tenure ends Monday when President-elect Donald Trump begins his second term in the White House. Trump, who had previously supported banning Tik Tok, later spoke out on the issue. In December, Trump he asked Supreme Court to Pause the implementation of the law And his administration “allow the opportunity to pursue a political solution to the questions that arise.”
“My decision on TikTok will be made in the near future, but I will have time to evaluate the situation,” Trump wrote in a post Friday on the social media app Truth Social.
The Biden administration earlier on Friday He issued a statement. Tik Tok “must be available to Americans, but simply American-owned.”
“Given the current reality, this administration recognizes that steps to implement the law should simply be passed down to the next administration, which will take office on Monday,” the statement said.
Attorney General Merrick Garland and Deputy Lisa Monaco in A Release The ruling “allows the Department of Justice to prevent the Chinese government from using TikTok to threaten US national security,” he said.
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