The President-elect encouraged internet providers and app stores to immediately restore access to TikTok, promising that his executive order suspending the ban on the app would retroactively protect them from possible sanctions.
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Sunday his intention to issue an executive order once inaugurated on Monday to suspend the law banning TikTok in the United States, and proposed that the social network be 50% controlled by American shareholders.
The law passed in Congress in 2024 came into force on Sunday, making the short video platform inaccessible to more than 170 million users in the United States.
“I would like to see a joint company controlled 50% by Americans,” wrote the president-elect. “Without an American agreement, there is no TikTok. With our validation, it is worth several hundred billions, even thousands of billions.”
90 days
The text provides for the possibility for the Head of State to postpone the implementation for 90 days while finding a buyer, an alternative offered to the parent company of TikTok, the Chinese ByteDance, in place of the ban.
ByteDance has so far refused to sell this platform launched barely ten years ago and which has become essential for a large majority of young Internet users.
-Donald Trump even encouraged internet providers and application stores to immediately restore access to TikTok, promising that his executive order would retroactively protect them against possible sanctions.
The law provides, in fact, for very heavy fines for these technical service providers, up to $5,000 per user for application stores.
“I ask companies not to leave TikTok in the dark!” urged the real estate developer on his Truth Social network.
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