But my guess is that for everyone who has it on their phone, it would stop working in various ways,' said Kentaro Toyama, a professor at the University of Michigan's School of Information.įCC Commissioner Brendan Carr on whether TikTok could be banned 03:08 Who could buy TikTok? 'Everyone who's installed it would still have it. If a ban survived the lawsuits, it would most likely result in Apple and Google, who run the vast majority of smartphones in the U.S., removing TikTok from their app stores and turning off app updates. One law and technology expert said any TikTok ban wouldn't kick in immediately, since the video platform and some users would likely challenge it in court. Commerce Secretary to ban foreign technology companies, as well as encourages the intelligence service to declassify information on potential risks. The RESTRICT Act, a bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate this month, allows the U.S. However, China pushed back against this possibility Thursday, with a government spokesperson saying 'China will firmly oppose' any forced sale of the app. subsidiary or sell it to an American company, CBS News has confirmed. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which reviews transactions that could affect national security, has been pressuring ByteDance to spin off its U.S.

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