Summary
TikTok, with 170 million US users, faces a nationwide US ban starting January 19 unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sells the platform.
A court rejected ByteDance’s bid to delay the ban, forcing TikTok to appeal to the Supreme Court.
The US government cites national security concerns over data collection, while TikTok argues its US user data is stored domestically.
President Biden may grant a 90-day extension, but the decision could fall to Trump, who has opposed banning TikTok.
How is this to be enforced?
The apps would be delisted from all App stores and then tiktok said the would have to shut down the US Servers.
Is the app itself illegal? Is there a fine to having it installed?
Tictok can still run servers outside the country…
Connecting to those servers would be blocked. Much like how the great firewall prevents most in/out connections.
It’s exists, Americans just can’t get in and their people can’t get out without workarounds and a little government dissident behavior.