“President Donald Trump signed an executive order delaying for 75 days the ban on the popular application for posting short videos TikTok, which was supposed to be closed on January 19.”, — write: epravda.com.ua
President Donald Trump signed an executive order delaying for 75 days the ban on the popular application for posting short videos TikTok, which was supposed to be closed on January 19. Reuters writes about it. In signing the executive order, Trump offered the U.S. government to become a half owner of TikTok’s American business in exchange for keeping the app and warned that he could impose tariffs against China if Beijing does not approve the U.S. deal with TikTok. The order capped 48 hours of legal maneuvering and political intrigue that left millions of American TikTok users struggling to find answers about the app’s fate.Advertisement: The drama began on Saturday when the short video app, used by 170 million Americans, was taken offline shortly before a law took effect on Sunday requiring Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the app on national security grounds or have it banned. The next day, Trump said he had plans to save TikTok.” Within hours, the company began resuming its service in the U.S., thanking the president-elect for assuring TikTok and its business partners that they would not face huge fines for the app will continue to work. The app and website went live on Monday, but TikTok is still not available for download in the Apple and Google app stores.Advertisement: Reminder: President-elect Donald Trump is expected to give TikTok more time to close a deal after he returns to power on Monday, as China has made it clear it would be open to a deal to keep TikTok in the US market. The social network TikTok stopped working in the United States less than two hours before the ban was due to take effect. US President-elect Donald Trump does not rule out retaining Chinese ownership of TikTok if measures are taken to ensure the protection and storage of American users’ data in the US.