Actually, the popular video app Tiktok should be banned in the USA.
The prohibition regulation has now been temporarily repealed.
The popular
Tiktok
video app
should be
banned
in the
US
.
Now the
prohibition ordinance has been
temporarily repealed.
The Chinese parent company has now gained more time to sell the US branch of the
app
to a company in the
US
.
Washington DC - The
Tiktok
video app can
still
be used in the
USA
.
According to a court document, the
US Foreign Investment Committee
extended the
deadline for TIktok's Chinese parent company on Friday.
Now he has until November 27th to find a buyer for his activities in the USA.
Thus the originally planned ban on Tiktok has been lifted for the time being.
The video app is enjoying great success in the United States: around one hundred million people use the app.
The
US committee
did not provide
a reason for extending the deadline to the end of November
.
The
US Department of Commerce
announced on Thursday that a court order would suspend the ban.
The legal battles would continue, according to the ministry.
Tiktok ban in the USA: App threat to national security?
Tiktok
should have found a buyer in the
US
by Thursday
.
However, since the search turned out to be nothing successful, the app was threatened with a ban.
US President Donald Trump
tried with the
prohibition
ordinance, which was issued at the beginning of August, to get the
Chinese parent company Bytedance
to sell the US branch of
Tiktok
to a company in the USA.
The
US government
justified its actions with the fact that Tiktok represented a threat to national security.
Trump
charged the Chinese company Bytedance with using the app for espionage purposes and
forwarding
user data to the Chinese
government
.
The company vehemently denied this.
Most recently, Bytedance negotiated with the
software company Oracle
and the
retail
giant Walmart
about the sale of the US branch of the app.
Donald Trump
supported this sale, although it was unclear and ongoing what a possible deal on the future of the platform in the
US
could look like.
US Government Prohibition Ordinance: Legal Headwinds from Pennsylvania and Washington
Several proceedings are pending in the United States
against the
US government's
prohibition order
.
A federal judge in
Pennsylvania
has
upheld
three
influencers'
lawsuits
.
In September, a federal judge in
Washington
issued an injunction against the prohibition ordinance at the request of the app's operator.
A reaction from
China was
inevitable in this dispute.
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce
had already
announced
new rules on
export restrictions
in August
.
These should make the sale of the US business for Bytedance more difficult.
On Tuesday, Bytedance had taken steps in the
USA
to obtain a one-month delay for the sale of the US branch.
However, this was rejected by the
government
.
Following the announcement by the
Commerce Department
on Thursday, the company announced that it was
still determined to find a joint solution
in the
US
.
The security concerns of the
US government
should be taken into account - even if these are not shared by the company.
Tiktok: App especially popular with young people
The video app was created in 2017 by merging with the
Musical.ly
app
.
The app can be used to create videos that are 15 to 60 seconds long.
With the help of artificial intelligence, the
app *,
which is mainly used by young people, determines the
preferences of the users and optimizes the use for them.
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