Social media Tiktok plans to shut down without US government intervention
Without clarity from the US government, the video platform Tiktok says it will block its application in the US from Sunday. It demanded a "definitive statement" from the government "immediately" on a law to ban the service.
18.01.2025, 03:50
SDA
If the government under President Joe Biden "does not promptly issue a definitive statement" ensuring that the law will not be enforced, "Tiktok will unfortunately be forced to go offline on January 19," the company said on Friday.
The US Supreme Court had previously upheld a law passed by the US Congress last spring. This stipulates that the service must disappear from the app stores on Sunday if the Chinese parent company Bytedance does not sell it before then.
However, its implementation remained questionable: the White House stated that the question of implementation would be left to future President Donald Trump. Trump announced a decision "in the not too distant future" in his online service Truth Social.
