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TikTok it became dark for users on Saturday night in the US, but may be gone for a long time.
President-elect Donald Trump Posted on Truth Social On Sunday morning, he said he would issue an executive order “extending the law’s bans into effect so we can make a deal to protect our national security.”
Trump said this even before TikTok collapsed “most likely” 90 day extension to the company.
In his post on Sunday, Trump also offered his “preliminary idea” of what the deal might look like, describing it as “a joint venture between current owners and/or new owners in which the United States acquires 50% ownership.”
Bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress passed the law last April this would force ByteDance to either sell TikTok or see it banned in the US; The law was quickly signed by President Joe Biden. Trump, who? ByteDance tried to force TikTok to sell in its early daysthis time he loudly opposed the ban.
with Supreme Court upholding the law In a decision Friday, the law will go into effect Sunday, and at Trump’s inauguration scheduled for Monday, White House and Justice Department officials issued statements suggesting they would leave the actual implementation of the ban up to the incoming president.
However, TikTok said that “critical service providers” a more “firm statement” was needed that they will not be penalized for continuing to host or list the program; without these safeguards, the program would be obscure. (A White House spokesman called TikTok’s stance a “stunt.”) When the program actually crashedTikTok shared a message with users saying, “We are happy that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to restore TikTok once he takes office.”
Trump’s post said he wanted to see TikTok reopen before issuing the executive order, “asked companies not to allow TikTok to remain in the dark” and said his order would “confirm there will be no liability.” The company that helped black out TikTok before my order.
“Americans deserve to see our exciting Inauguration on Monday, as well as other events and conversations,” Trump wrote.
