US Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban: What happens now?
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The law was passed with bipartisan approval in Congress last year and signed by Joe Biden. However, some of the MPs who approved the law changed their minds and stated that TikTok should continue to serve in the USA.
Donald Trump did not announce what steps he would take
Making a statement about the decision, Donald Trump said that the decision regarding the future of TikTok belonged to him, but did not give details about what steps he would take.
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will attend Trump’s inauguration in Washington on Monday. Chew said: “I want to thank President Trump for his commitment to working with us to find a solution that will maintain TikTok’s availability in the United States.”
If the Biden administration makes clear that it will not enforce the law, deferring to the incoming Trump administration. It is possible that TikTok will continue operating on Sunday.
On December 15, 2022, the US Senate unanimously passed the bill banning federal government employees from downloading TikTok to government devices due to “national security concerns”. The Senate later passed the bill to sell the application to the Chinese company ByteDance, which owns TikTok, in April 2024.
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