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Less than 24 hours after dark, TikTok he says he has arrived come back online after the president-elect Donald Trump has given the company’s service providers – presumably Apple, Google and Oracle – assurances that its administration has not applied a law prohibiting the App in the first place.
“In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring the service,” the company wrote in a statement. “We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will not face any penalties providing TikTok to more of 170 million Americans and enabling more than 7 million small businesses to thrive. It is a strong stand for the First Amendment and against arbitrary censorship. We will work with President Trump on a long-term solution that will keep TikTok in the United States.”
It is the last save in the dramatic struggle on the future of TikTok in the United States. Last year, Congress passed a law which asked ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, to sell its operations in the United States or face a ban starting on January 19. Supreme Court. Last night, Apple and Google pulled the app from their respective app stores, as well as several other apps developed by ByteDance. Oracle told employees to shut down servers that hosted US TikTok data, according to the report The information.
The move set the stage for President-elect Trump, who had tried to ban TikTok when he was in office, to save the app before he was sworn in as president. “He will issue an executive order on Monday to extend the period of time before the law’s prohibitions go into effect, so that we can reach an agreement to protect our national security.” wrote on Social Truth Sunday morning. “The order also confirms that there will be no liability for any company that helped keep TikTok from going dark before my order.”
Technically, the law only allows Trump to extend the enforcement deadline if ByteDance makes real progress on an agreement to divest its US operations. Among those whose names have been floated as possible acquisitions: Elon Musk and his fellow billionaire Frank McCourt. While McCourt did an official offerMusk’s name was apparently floated in talks with the Chinese government, according to Bloomberg. “I want the United States to have a 50% ownership position in a joint venture,” Trump wrote on Social Truth. “By doing this, we save TikTok, keep it in good hands and allow us to say. Without the approval of the United States, there is no Tik Tok. With our approval, it is worth hundreds of billions of dollars – maybe trillions.”
TikTok, along with other ByteDance apps, has not returned to US app stores since publication. But several users reported that they were able to access their timelines again after they were listed as unavailable last night. Others had regained access to their accounts, but with varying degrees of functionality.
