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.

  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    504·
    13 days ago

    This will help spread awareness that there are other sources for apps when people start asking where they can download tictok.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11·
      13 days 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·
          12 days ago

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

            • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
              3·
              12 days ago

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

              • towerful@programming.dev
                1·
                12 days 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·
                  12 days 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.

      • dan@upvote.au
        23·
        13 days ago

        All apps on F-Droid have to be open source, so TikTok couldn’t be listed there.

        • WamGams@lemmy.ca
          13·
          13 days ago

          Bytedance will likely start opening up enough to allow people to develop readers.

          I dont think they intend to shrink their sphere of influence.