Tiktok is again available for download in the United States. The application He stopped working on January 19 as a result of the prohibition framed in the “Act of protection of Americans against applied applications by foreign adversaries“It was something that had been warning weeks beforesince the Supreme Court determined that Bytedance had to sell the application to an American company or cease its operations in the country.
Immediately after disappearing from application stores (App Store and Google Play Store), Trump granted a 75 -day extension through an executive order. Almost a month later, the app is again available.
What happened to Tiktok. On January 19 Tiktok disappeared from Android and iOS Application Stores. The Supreme Court ratified the decision of VETAR TIKTOK In the country, encouraging Bytedance to look for a buyer to avoid permanent prohibition.
Despite the Court’s decision, Trump approved an executive order hours after the prohibition (and only one day after taking office), in order to grant a 75 -day extension that left the situation of the situation in the air The social network. This decree ordered the Attorney General’s Office and the Department of Justice not to apply sanctions or measures that comply with the regulations approved under the mandate of the previous president.
What has changed. Although the extension allowed Tiktok to continue operating in the country, application stores had struck the social network of their repositories. In other words, It was not possible to download it officially From App Store or Google Play Store.
Now, the social network is again available for download in these two main platforms.
They are not safe. Despite the oxygen ball thrown by Trump, Tiktok is still forced to look for a buyer. In fact, Trump assured the press that “There are a lot of interested people” In buying the app, and an extension a priori has no purpose than granting more time to Bytdance to close an agreement.
However, Tiktok’s algorithm is almost sacred to Chinaand the company is not willing to get rid of it. It is not unreasonable to raise a scenario in which Bytedance sells Tiktok to an American company with a completely different algorithm in order to overcome the prohibition.
However, raising completely different operation in one of its main markets will not be so simple. Only time will say.
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