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TikTok said its services will go dark on Sunday without a guarantee from the Biden administration that it will not punish. Apple, Google and other service providers if they support the app.
“Unless the Biden administration immediately provides a definitive statement to satisfy the most critical service providers by ensuring non-application, unfortunately TikTok will be forced to go dark on January 19,” TikTok said. in a statement on friday
The statement indicates that TikTok’s American user base, which the company says is more than 170 million, will not be able to use the service when opening the app or website on Sunday.
TikTok released the following statement On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously to support a law requiring service providers to no longer support their app in the US if parent company ByteDance fails to carry out a “qualified divestment” of the app by Sunday. As a result, Apple, Google and Oracle They can face harsh penalties if they do not adhere to the law.
“The statements issued today by the Biden White House and the Department of Justice have failed to provide the necessary clarity and assurance to service providers that are integral to keeping TikTok available to more than 170 million Americans “, TikTok said in its statement.
However, Biden’s term ends on Monday, when the president-elect Donald Trump begins his second term in the White House. Trump, who previously supported a ban on TikTok, later backtracked on the matter. In December, Trump he asked the Supreme Court at pause the implementation of the law and allow his administration “an opportunity to pursue a political resolution of the questions at issue in the case.”
In a Friday post on his social network app Truth Social, Trump wrote: “My decision on TikTok will be made in the not too distant future, but I must have time to review the situation. Stay tuned! “
First Friday, the Biden administration released a statement saying that TikTok “should remain available to Americans, but only under American ownership.”
“Given the sheer fact of timing, this Administration recognizes that actions to implement the law should simply fall to the next Administration, which takes office on Monday,” the statement said.
Attorney General Merrick Garland and Lisa Monaco, his deputy, said in a liberation that the decision “allows the Department of Justice to prevent the Chinese government from weaponizing TikTok to undermine America’s national security.”
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