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The Supreme Court is set to decide whehter to uphold a law that would effectively ban TikTok in the United States. Here's what to know about the potential ban.
Message displayed to US users on the TikTok app during the shutdown on January 18, 2025. The short-form video-hosting service TikTok has been under a de jure nationwide ban in the United States since January 19, 2025, due to the US government's concerns over potential user data collection and influence operations by the government of the People's Republic of China.
The ban gave Chinese-owned ByteDance until 19 January to sell TikTok. If it fails to do so, a nationwide ban is set to come into force – despite having 170 million US users.
Supreme Court backs TikTok ban: App set to shut down Sunday. Ariana Baio. January 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM. ... Trump, who once tried to ban TikTok and advocated for its removal, has turned into an ...
The main reason for the ban in was reported to be social harmony being disturbed by "misuse" of the video app and that there was rising demand to control it. [41] The ban was lifted in August 2024 following an agreement between TikTok and the Government of Nepal to help identify criminal misuse of the app. [42]
The ban is expected to apply to Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Snapchat, TikTok and X (formerly known as Twitter) while services used for health care and education such as Messenger Kids, WhatsApp, YouTube, Kids Helpline and Google Classroom are expected to be exempt.
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law set to ban social media platform TikTok in less than 48 hours. "There is no doubt that, for more than 170 million Americans, TikTok offers a distinctive ...
Shadow banning, also called stealth banning, hell banning, ghost banning, and comment ghosting, is the practice of blocking or partially blocking a user or the user's content from some areas of an online community in such a way that the ban is not readily apparent to the user, regardless of whether the action is taken by an individual or an algorithm.