Capcut and Lemonade are also closed
After the US Federal Government's law on TikTok was upheld by the Supreme Court, TikTok has stopped working in America since Sunday. American users have started sharing screenshots on social media of the message 'Sorry, Tiktok is not available at the moment' when they open the app. TikTok has disappeared from both the Google and Apple app stores.
The Supreme Court ruled that the ultimatum given by the government to the Chinese company ByteDance to sell Tiktok's US operations or face bans across the country from next Sunday was right. Along with this, ByteDance has stopped the operation of Tiktok, which has 170 million users in America.
TikTok is not available on both AppStore and PlayStore for US users . On devices that are already installed, it says 'TikTok is currently unavailable'. In the US, a law has been implemented to ban TikTok. This means, unfortunately, you will be seeing a message saying 'You will not be able to use TikTok at this time.' Tiktok stopped working since Saturday evening.
Donald Trump, who is going to start his second term as president from Monday, is expected to announce the extension of 90 days for TikTok. It is also mentioned in Tiktok's notice that Trump has promised to cooperate on this issue after entering the White House. According to Reuters, apps like ByteDance's CapCut and LemonAte have also stopped working in the US along with Tiktok.
'The issue of extending the 90-day deadline for tickets is a possibility,' Trump told NBC News on Saturday. 'If I make that decision, I will probably announce it on Monday.' After the ban on Tiktok, companies such as Apple and Google responded that they will be closed from Sunday unless they are assured that legal action will not be taken.
The law signed by President Biden last April stipulates that Tiktok's American operating company must either sell to a non-Chinese entrepreneur or be banned. For this, the US government gave a deadline of January 19 to ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok.
Bytedance filed a case in the Supreme Court alleging that the law violates freedom of expression and does not provide equal opportunities in business. During the hearing of the case, the judges emphasized the US government's suspicions that TikTok was collecting data of US users and giving it to the Chinese government. The court ruled that the ultimatum given to ByteDance was correct .
