told the BBC<\/a>\u00a0not being on TikTok would amount to a significant salary cut, while another, Erika Thompson, said the educational content on the platform would be the \u201cbiggest loss\u201d for the community.<\/p>\nSome users have been announcing where their content will be available to view next, including on the Chinese video app, Red Note, which has been little used by American users up until now.<\/p>\n
President Joe Biden\u2019s term is due to end on Monday, with Donald Trump due to be sworn in as the next president on that day. The White House earlier said it would therefore fall on the incoming president to enforce the law.<\/p>\n
Trump has indicated he is against the ban, after initially supporting the move. \u201cMy decision on TikTok will be made in the not too distant future, but I must have time to review the situation,\u201d he said on Friday.<\/p>\n
He also revealed he had spoken to China\u2019s President Xi Jinping and discussed TikTok, among other issues.<\/p>\n
In December Trump said he had a \u201cwarm spot\u201d for the app as it helped him with young voters in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s comments marked a U-turn on his stance in his first term as president when he aimed to enact a similar ban through an executive order.<\/p>\n
ByteDance has vowed not to sell TikTok and said it planned to shut US operations of the app on Sunday unless there is a reprieve.<\/p>\n
Democratic and Republican lawmakers voted to ban the video-sharing app last year, over concerns about its links to the Chinese government. TikTok has repeatedly stated it does not share information with Beijing.<\/p>\n
The potential ban comes at a time of heightened concern in the US about Chinese espionage.<\/p>\n
Cybersecurity firms have suggested that the app is capable of collecting users\u2019 data beyond what they look at on TikTok.<\/p>\n
US Attorney General Merrick Garland said authoritarian regimes should not have \u201cunfettered access\u201d to Americans\u2019 data and that the decision prevented China from \u201cweaponising TikTok to undermine America\u2019s national security\u201d.<\/p>\n
China enacted a law in 2017 that compels Chinese nationals living abroad to co-operate with its intelligence apparatus.<\/p>\n
But Beijing has denied it pressures companies to collect information on its behalf and criticised the ban. TikTok has repeatedly stressed it has not been asked for its data.<\/p>\n
The app argued the law endangers free speech and would hit its users, advertisers, content creators and employees. TikTok has 7,000 US employees.<\/p>\n
How did we get here?<\/h2>\n
24 April 2024<\/strong>: Biden signs bipartisan TikTok bill, which gave Chinese parent company, ByteDance, six months to sell its controlling stake or be blocked in the US.<\/p>\n7 May 2024<\/strong>: TikTok files a lawsuit aiming to block the law, calling it an \u201cextraordinary intrusion on free speech rights\u201d.<\/p>\n2 August 2024<\/strong>: The US government files a lawsuit against TikTok, accusing the social media company of unlawfully collecting children\u2019s data and failing to respond when parents tried to delete their children\u2019s accounts.<\/p>\n6 December 2024<\/strong>: TikTok\u2019s bid to overturn a law which would see it banned or sold in the US from early 2025 is rejected by a federal appeals court.<\/p>\n27 December 2024:<\/strong>\u00a0President-elect Donald Trump asks the US Supreme Court to delay the upcoming ban while he works on a \u201cpolitical resolution\u201d.<\/p>\n10 January 2025:<\/strong>\u00a0The Supreme Court\u2019s nine justices hear from lawyers representing TikTok and content creators that the ban would be a violation of free speech protections for the platform\u2019s more than 170 million users in the US.<\/p>\n17 January 2025:<\/strong>\u00a0The US Supreme Court upholds the law that could lead to TikTok being banned within days over national security concerns.<\/p>\n19 January 2025:<\/strong>\u00a0The deadline for TikTok to sell its US stake or face a ban. TikTok has indicated it will \u201cgo dark\u201d on this day.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TikTok has said it will be forced to \u201cgo dark\u201d in the US on Sunday unless the government intervenes before a ban takes effect. In a\u00a0statement late on Friday, it said the White House and the Department of Justice had \u201cfailed to provide the necessary clarity and assurance to the service providers that are integral […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}