The video platform TikTok stopped working on Saturday (18) in the United States, after the Supreme Court of that country decided to maintain a law approved by Congress that forces the application to separate itself from its parent company, the Chinese ByteDance, or face the closure.
The short video platform, with 170 million users in the United States, sent many of them a warning with the following message: “Sorry, TikTok is not available at this time”. Furthermore, he attributed the suspension of operations to legislation promoted by Congress.
However, according to President Joe Biden’s administration, TikTok made the decision on its own initiative.
Following the Supreme Court’s decision, the White House announced that the current Executive would not enforce the law, leaving enforcement to the elected president, Donald Trump, who takes office on Monday (20).
The TikTok platform has been fighting for months against this law, approved by the US Congress in March, in the name of national security. The United States Supreme Court refused to suspend it, sealing the social network’s fate in the country.
The new United States government “will put measures in place to prevent TikTok from becoming unavailable” in the country, said, on Friday (17), the national security advisor chosen by the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, in a interview.
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