{"id":123035,"date":"2025-01-17T19:32:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T19:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/tiktok-updates-tiktok-faces-ban-in-us-by-sunday-after-supreme-court-rejects-appeal-bbc-com\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T19:32:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T19:32:56","slug":"tiktok-updates-tiktok-faces-ban-in-us-by-sunday-after-supreme-court-rejects-appeal-bbc-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/tiktok-updates-tiktok-faces-ban-in-us-by-sunday-after-supreme-court-rejects-appeal-bbc-com\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok updates: TikTok faces ban in US by Sunday after Supreme Court rejects appeal – BBC.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

A TikTok ban<\/a> in the US is set to go ahead on Sunday after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal
What a ban looks like and how it would be enforced<\/a> remains uncertain. The White House says it will leave enforcement to the incoming Trump administration
Justices ruled that the law passed by Congress asking the app's Chinese owner to sell its stake or face a US ban did not violate free speech rights
The legal drama stems from the US government's national security concerns and TikTok's ties to China<\/a>
Last year, ByteDance was ordered to sell the app to a US buyer or it would be banned by 19 January – that sale has not yet happened
TikTok is one of the most popular short-form video apps in the world, and is a major part of a multi-billion dollar influencer economy
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TikTokers' say goodbye to their 'Chinese spy' and move to RedNote
Edited by Brandon Livesay and Phil McCausland in New York

A TikTok ban in the US had support from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers. But many everyday Americans do not agree.
In the latest episode of Americast, Sarah, Marianna and Anthony unpick the politics behind the ban and the players who may step in to prevent TikTok shutting its US operation.
You can listen here<\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts.
If you type 'TikTok ban' into TikTok right now, creators with big and small followings are reacting to news of the incoming ban.
Father and son comedy duo Joe and Frank Mele – who run an account with over 30m followers – say they "don't really know what [the ban] means for the future of TikTok" and will continue to post on the app while they still can.
"In case the ban comes quicker than we hope, we just wanted to say thank you," they say in a video posted on Friday.
Other creators are following a trend of lip-syncing to a Family Guy quote or expressing their hope that YouTuber Mr Beast might "save TikTok" after he said he wanted to buy the app on X.
A former cybersecurity advisor to Barack Obama says the Supreme Court's decision to uphold TikTok ban was "rushed".
Timothy Edgar, a former ACLU lawyer who served on Obama's National Security Council, helped submit a brief to the Supreme Court in support of TikTok's appeal.
Speaking to Anita Anand on Radio 4's PM programme, he said he was surprised with the unanimous decision and "frankly disappointed with the reasoning".
Edgar argued that Americans "deserved a better process", and alleged that the Supreme Court decision "ignores some of the more important questions that we tried to raise in our brief".
"I thought this was a very important free speech case," Edgar said. "I've called it the most important free speech case in a generation."
The former cybersecurity official said that he though that there is little that Trump can do as president to overturn the decision.
"Congress enacted this law and only Congress can repeal it," said Edgar, who expressed doubt that TikTok could be sold.
Shou Zi Chew
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew has thanked President-elect Donald Trump for his commitment to "work with us to find a solution including that keeps TikTok available in the United States".
Chew posted the comments on TikTok after the Supreme Court upheld a law that could ban the app unless it is sold from its current Chinese owner ByteDance.
As we reported earlier, Trump said any decision on the app's future will be up to him<\/a>, but that he "must have time to review the situation". Media reports previously suggested that Trump may issue an executive order to delay the ban for 60 to 90 days.
US media reported yesterday that Zi was invited by the president-elect's team to attend the inauguration on Monday. He is expected to attend.
Aidan Walker<\/strong>
BBC Future reporter<\/span>
With the guillotine hovering over TikTok's neck, users are bracing for a cultural void.
For all the criticisms levied at the app, many say TikTok created a system that made them feel nurtured and uniquely empowered.
No platform in recent memory has had a story or impact quite like TikTok's. It fuelled thousands of small businesses<\/a>, filled billions of idle hours with entertaining, informative content. It offered opportunities to activists and artists at a moment of increasing uncertainty.
A third of US adults, external<\/span><\/a> and the majority of teenagers are on TikTok, and globally, the app has been downloaded nearly five billion times. According to an analysis by Know Your Meme,, external<\/span><\/a> more of the internet memes gathered by its encyclopaedia came from TikTok, starting in 2022, than anywhere else. Without a doubt, TikTok is the <\/i>hub for online culture.
At the heart of TikTok is its algorithm – a set of instructions that determine the content displayed to users, based on data about how they engaged with other material.
TikTok can use this data, as well as information about an individual user's device, location and keystroke rhythms, to recommend videos to users on its automatically generated For You feed.
Some researchers have previously claimed the app collects more data from users than others in order to power its highly personalised system.
However, rival social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram collect similar user data.

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