That didn’t last long. Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders. This included a temporary break in the law has banned TikTok in the USA.
With the executive order, Trump’s Justice Department is not enforced the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act for 75 days, effectively extending the time the company has to reach an agreement. In a statement, Trump said the “unfortunate timing” of the law, which took effect during President Joe Biden’s final hours in office, “impairs my ability to assess the national security and foreign policy impact of the law’s prohibitions before they are implemented.” come into force.” Effect.”
He wrote that he would review “sensitive information” related to national security concerns raised by the app’s critics and “assess the adequacy of remedial actions taken by TikTok to date.” The company had previously made years of effort to known as Project Texasto move US user data to Oracle-hosted servers. The agreement was reached after years of negotiations with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), but these discussions stopped last year.
TikTok (and other ByteDance apps) went offline late Saturday before the law takes effect on Sunday. However, the TikTok outage only lasted a few hours. Service was gradually restored after Trump promised to sign an executive order suspending the law after he was sworn in on Monday. He reiterated that there would be “no liability for any company that helped prevent TikTok from going dark before my order.” Trump also proposed a joint venture in which U.S. interests would take a 50 percent stake in TikTok.
Earlier on Monday, China (where ByteDance is based) signaled openness to strike a deal with the US that would allow TikTok to remain active there in the long term, although he previously said a forced sale of the app would be blocked. “When it comes to measures such as operating and acquiring companies, we believe that these should be decided by companies independently and in accordance with market principles,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said. “When it comes to Chinese companies, China’s laws and regulations should be followed.”
During his first term, Trump tried to do this Ban TikTok in the USA. He signed executive Orders This included an attempt to force ByteDance to sell its US business. That didn’t happen back then. But pressure on TikTok increased during the Biden administration with the former president I signed a bill last year that prompted ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban in the US.
