A federal appeals panel Friday rejected TikTok's request that the court pause its ruling and the Jan 19th deadline for a sale.

Summary

TikTok’s request to pause a pending ban and January 19th sale deadline was denied by a federal appeals court.

The court upheld the constitutionality of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, citing national security concerns.

TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has until January 19th to sell or face a ban.

  • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    This all seems so pointless while sites like X thrive.

    And now I’m realizing Musk will ensure it does get banned so he can slurp everyone up into his own foreign interference cesspool.

    Hopefully they all go to BlueSky instead.

      • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
        0·
        4 months ago

        Inability to reinstall when a phone is broken or replaced will send it on a slow death spiral if all they do is remove it from the stores. Or in Android’s case I guess this could drive users into adopting other app stores.

        I think they will literally delete the app from our phones if they have that capability.

          • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            My understanding from following the issue is they are just going to be removed from app stores. Desktop use isn’t much and an ISP block would be thwarted by a VPN which are cheap and ubiquitous.

            That said, take my words with a grain of salt. I’m not a primary source.