'This Is Nuts': TikTok Just Got Closer to Being Banned in the U.S — Here's Why

In April, the U.S. Senate passed a rule that would unit TikTok to abstracted from its Beijing-based genitor company, ByteDance, wrong a year—or look a nationalist ban. On Friday, a U.S. appeals tribunal upheld the law.

This intends TikTok could beryllium banned starting January 19, 2025.

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In May, TikTok sued to effort to artifact the law, arguing that it infringed connected the free reside of its users, but successful the ruling, the judges wrote that it does not "contravene the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States," and it besides does not "violate the Fifth Amendment guarantee of adjacent protection of the laws."

In a statement, TikTok suggested it would entreaty the decision.

"The Supreme Court has an established humanities grounds of protecting Americans' correct to free speech, and we expect they will do conscionable that connected this important law issue," said institution spokesperson Michael Hughes, per CNN. "Unfortunately, the TikTok prohibition was conceived and pushed done based upon inaccurate, flawed and hypothetical information, resulting successful outright censorship of the American people. The TikTok ban, unless stopped, will soundlessness the voices of complete 170 cardinal Americans present successful the US and astir the world connected January 19th, 2025."

TikTok has astir 170 cardinal users successful the U.S., according to reports.

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ByteDance previously noted that it will not sell.

In a September, U.S. authorities attorneys based on that TikTok's algorithm is "controlled by its Chinese genitor company," which whitethorn power Americans connected the app.

TikTok users, meanwhile, are posting their complaints and sorrows.

"This is nuts," one personification said successful a video, while others said they still person their "hopes that TikTok will not get banned" but that "it doesn't look good."

Some users said they would commencement posting much connected YouTube, conscionable successful case.