TikTok Ban and what that means for me

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the federal government can legally shut down TikTok in the U.S., delivering a stunning blow to the viral video app used by about half of Americans. The high court’s decision means that starting on Jan. 19, tech giants Apple and Google can no longer offer TikTok on their app stores. Web-hosting providers must cut ties with the platform or be subject to fines of $5,000 for each user that can still access the service, a penalty that can easily add up to billions of dollars.

All eyes are now on President-elect Donald Trump. He filed a brief with the Supreme Court ahead of last week’s arguments asking that the justices delay a ruling to provide him time for his administration to cut a “negotiated solution” that would resolve the national security concerns. After Trumps change of heart he can possibly save TikTok!

The TikTok ban will start Sunday. The following day, Trump will be sworn into office. Once in the White House, Trump can have his Justice Department to not enforce the ban. That would put Apple, Google and other companies that do business with TikTok in an awkward position, since the firms would technically be in violation of federal law.

With the federal government, they told the court during oral arguments that if the ban takes effect, it might just give the U.S. government enough leverage to convince ByteDance and Chinese regulators to allow the sale of TikTok to an American company or group of U.S. investors.

TikTok getting banned doesn’t sound like that big of a deal, I personally think it is because I “grew up” on that app. TikTok was originally musically and had a very small amount of people on it. I was in 4th grade when I first got it and have had it ever since. If they are taking away the app I think they should’ve had a way to get our data downloaded because I have more than 5,000 videos on this app and their is now easy way to get it downloaded. I hope Trump can hopefully get back.