House members are telling Apple and Google to be prepared to comply with a law that could result in TikTok facing an effective ban in the U.S.

Summary

House Committee members urged Apple and Google CEOs to prepare for compliance with a law potentially banning TikTok in the U.S. next month.

This follows a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling upholding a law requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok by Jan. 19 to address national security concerns. Without divestiture, app stores must block TikTok.

TikTok has filed an emergency injunction, citing harm to businesses and creators, while arguing the law is unconstitutional.

Trump’s stance on enforcing the ban remains unclear, amid reports of his ties to TikTok investor Jeff Yass.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    It also has a web client.

    I would assume they also plan on shutting down US servers. If they move all the content and host it outside the US, I’m not sure what the government’s next step would be. Wonder if we’re going to build the next great firewall of China in the US.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        16 hours ago

        I suspect they maintain it just as it means to allow non-users to click links and get hooked

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            3·
            9 hours ago

            Oddly enough, I’ve never seen one hit. But I am kind of on the fringe of search engines at the moment.

            • towerful
              1·
              9 hours ago

              Pinterest invaded Google image search a while ago.
              Tiktok invaded their video results.

              Google have kinda sorted it, but it really depends on what you search for. The less “real” results you expect to find (or the more esoteric the keywords), the more garbage tiktok/Pinterest you have to scroll through.

              • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
                2·
                9 hours ago

                Yeah I was digging for a shit on the New Jersey drone sightings, searx showed nothing of use, I went directly to Google and got some YouTube results but that was about it. I had to go directly to TikTok to actually get people posting about it. Then again it might be on their blacklist.