Since Sunday January 19, 2025, American Tik Tok users no longer have access to the social network. Indeed, the United States government has implemented a new law banning this application popular in its territory. Since the Supreme Court upheld the ban on Tik Tok in the United States, the social network has become completely inaccessible within the country. “A law banning Tik Tok has been implemented in the United States. Unfortunately, this means you can no longer use TikTok for now“, is thus indicated to American users of the application when they try to connect to it. The text of the law passed by the American Congress in 2024 specifies that Tik Tok has been banned in the name of national security.
According to American elected officials, the vote on this new law was necessary to prevent Chinese authorities from accessing American user data. And to manipulate opinion in the United States. The only way for Tik Tok not to be banned in the United States was for its parent company (the Chinese company ByteDance, editor's note) to sell the application to a company based on American soil. Which ultimately was not done. To avoid having to pay very heavy finesthe leaders of Tik Tok preferred to deactivate the social network in the United States. Unsurprisingly, users of the application were disappointed, particularly because they can no longer access content from their favorite stars. “Even a VPN doesn't work to access TikTok“, said one of them on X (formerly Twitter, editor's note).
Tik Tok: the application is already banned under certain conditions in France
By adopting this law, The United States has become the first country to completely ban Tik Tok. Until now, other nations had taken certain restrictive measures concerning the social network, without banning it definitively. In France, the government has notably banned the installation and use of applications “recreational” like TikTok, Netflix and Instagram on the professional phones of 2.5 million civil servants. In order to “guarantee cybersecurity“administrations and civil servants of the country. This ban, however, does not apply to the personal telephones of state employees. For the moment, it is not planned that France will take the same path as the United States regarding Tik Tok. However, it should still be remembered that the government had temporarily banned Tik Tok in New Caledonia to try to put an end to the violent riots which occurred in this overseas territory a few months ago. Currently, it is rather the social network X which is in the sights of certain French elected officials.
