Why is TikTok banned in the US? When will it happen? What you should know

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide this week the fate of TikTok, the wildly popular social media video app used by 170 million Americans. Depending on how they rule, TikTok could be banned in the US in just under a week and the endless scrolling will stop.

Unless the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the ban, TikTok’s parent company will have until Sunday to sell the company to avoid the ban itself. There are offers on the table, but the company has not yet confirmed whether it is interested in selling to keep its platform available in the US market.

In the event that TikTok loses and can’t or won’t sell in time, here’s what you need to know.

Others read:Project Liberty makes an offer to TikTok. Here’s what you should know about the potential buyer.

At the time of publication, there is no ruling on TikTok in the US. On Friday, January 17, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the fate of TikTok.

The U.S. Justice Department says TikTok, whose owner ByteDance, based in Beijing, has access to American data and shares it with the Chinese government, could be manipulating the app’s content to influence American opinion.

Biden signed a law requiring ByteDance to sell TikTok to a US company by January 19, 2025.

TikTok says the government has yet to prove that such a security risk ever occurred, arguing that the ban violates the First Amendment rights and threatens the voices of millions of Americans. They have a tough fight ahead of them. The lower court’s decision to uphold the law was made unanimously by judges appointed by both Democratic and Republican presidents.

More on the TikTok ban:Why the Supreme Court is likely to side with 170 million TikTok users

If ByteDance does not sell TikTok by Sunday, January 19, 2025, it will be banned by law in the United States.

If ByteDance doesn’t sell TikTok to someone less controversial than a Chinese company, the app will be removed from American app stores and U.S. internet service providers will be ordered to block access to the site.

If you have the app on your phone, it will not disappear, but services may be limited or unavailable and no further updates will be available. It’s unclear whether you can add new content.

If you want to keep a copy of your activity in the app, you can do so now.

Yes; If you would like to request a copy of your data in the app, you can do so. Here’s how.

In TikTok, go to your profile page and tap the three-line menu in the top right.

Go to yours profile Page (tap “Profile” at the bottom)
Tap Menu Three vertically stacked lines at the bottom
Knock Settings and privacy
Knock Account
Knock Download your data
Select the data to download (select all information or just data) and the file format (easy-to-read text or JSON so other services can import your file).
Knock Request data

You will be notified in the app when the file is ready. The file may take a few days to prepare, depending on how many videos you have uploaded and how many other people are doing the same.

How to download your TikTok data:

Go to yours profile Page (tap “Profile” at the bottom)
Tap Menu Three vertically stacked lines at the bottom
Knock Settings and privacy
Knock Account
Knock Download your data
Knock Download data to see if your request is ready and tap Download If yes.

Your file will be available for up to four days.

Perhaps? Late last year, President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to suspend any bans on the app so that his administration, which begins a day after the deadline when he officially takes office on Inauguration Day, “can pursue a negotiated goal.” .” Resolution.”

At a press conference in December, Trump – who currently has nearly 15 million followers on the app – told reporters: “TikTok has a ‘warm place in my heart’ and praised the app for strengthening his relationship with young voters.” He also expressed his support for.” The app on Truth Social writes, “Why would I want to ban TikTok?”

But he was against it before he was for it.

Trump issued the first TikTok ban via executive order in 2020. His ban, which also gave ByteDance a deadline to sell to a US company, coincidentally came a month after TikTokers gleefully trolled him by running a campaign through the app organized to sign up for seats at his rallies, which led to Trunp bragging about the number of pledges he had received and then not showing up.

While ByteDance was negotiating to sell to Microsoft and Oracle, the company filed and received a request for an injunction to prevent a ban on the app, so Trump’s ban never took effect.

Biden later revoked the order and directed the Commerce Secretary to investigate the app. In 2022, Biden signed a bill banning the app on government devices.

From John Green to Carmel High School, Indiana has left its mark on TikTok.

Carmel High School went viral in 2023 when students showed off the amenities their school has to offer that most others don’t, including a bookstore, jewelry room, planetarium and a 10,000-seat football stadium.

The first video reached 1.3 million likes and 7.6 million views on TikTok. A second part was released, which received 163,000 likes and 1.3 million views.

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