TikTok, blocked since midnight this Sunday across the Atlantic, will return. The application “is in the process of restoring the service”, indicated the company in a post published on services so they are not penalized by providing TikTok to more than 170 million Americans and enabling more than 7 million small businesses to thrive.”
The president-elect, who is due to take office on Monday following his inauguration, had indicated earlier that he would issue on Monday “a decree to extend the period before the prohibitions of the law come into force, so that we can make a deal to protect our national security.” “We must save TikTok,” Donald Trump said again on Sunday evening in a final meeting in Washington.
Towards American shareholding?
The law, which was to come into force this Sunday, banned TikTok in the United States unless the American branch was sold. Joe Biden had left it to Donald Trump to decide whether or not to apply the law. Donald Trump, in a post published on his social network, Truth Social, indicates proposing 50% American shareholding for the American branch of the application. “Without the approval of the United States, there is no Tik Tok,” explains Donald Trump. With our approval, (TikTok) is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions. »
Until now, ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has always officially refused to sell its jewel, even if several investors have come forward. “We will work with President Trump to find a long-term solution that will keep TikTok in the United States,” TikTok wrote this Sunday, without directly responding to Donald Trump’s suggestion.
Removed from main digital stores this Sunday, TikTok indicated in a message to users trying to connect that “a law banning TikTok has been enacted in the United States. “Unfortunately, this means you cannot use TikTok at the moment. The message said: “We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated he will work with us on a solution to restore TikTok once he takes office. Stay tuned! »
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Since Friday, the application had urged the Biden government to send a clear signal to internet providers and application store managers to dissuade them from suspending downloads and updates. On Friday, the White House estimated that “the application of the law (should) return to the next government, which will take office on Monday,” according to a statement from spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre.
National security concerns
Seized by TikTok as a last resort, the American Supreme Court unanimously refused on Friday to suspend the law. The nine senior magistrates considered that Congress’s concerns “in matters of national security” were “well-founded”.
American elected officials had justified the passing of the law by the need to prevent the Chinese authorities from accessing the data of American users or from manipulating opinion in the United States. But if the platform was the subject of frank hostility from many American elected officials a year ago, the tide has since turned and a political consensus has emerged in recent days, favorable to the preservation of TikTok.
