TikTok says it’s restoring service in the US

It hasn’t even been a full day since ByteDance shut down TikTok in the US, and now it says it is coming again. In a press release posted on X Sunday afternoon, TikTok wrote, “In settlement with our service suppliers, TikTok is within the technique of restoring service.” The assertion additionally thanked Trump, who might be sworn in on Monday and beforehand stated he was contemplating giving TikTok an extension amid reports of potential bidders (although ByteDance has expressed no real interest in promoting). “We’ll work with President Trump on a long-term answer that retains TikTok in the US,” TikTok stated.

On the time of this writing, the TikTok app is as soon as once more up and working for me regardless of beforehand exhibiting a message saying I “cannot use TikTok for now.” Phew, what an agonizing — checks watch — 12 hours that was with out it. TikTok does not but appear to be again within the App Retailer or Google Play Retailer, although, so for those who deleted the app out of your telephone, you will most likely have to attend just a little longer to get it again. CapCut, one of many other apps affected by the ban, additionally is not out there.

Whereas the regulation banning TikTok was set to enter impact right now, January 19, the outgoing administration has expressed that it could not be implementing it in Biden’s last hours as president. MSNBC reported on Saturday that White Home Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre referred to as TikTok’s menace to go darkish “a stunt,” saying “we see no cause for TikTok or different corporations to take actions within the subsequent few days earlier than the Trump Administration takes workplace on Monday.” However TikTok maintained that it couldn’t keep on-line with out assurance that service suppliers wouldn’t be punished.

Trump chimed in on Sunday morning, writing on Reality Social, “I’m asking corporations to not let TikTok keep darkish! I’ll situation an government order on Monday to increase the time period earlier than the regulation’s prohibitions take impact, in order that we will make a deal to guard our nationwide safety. The order can even affirm that there might be no legal responsibility for any firm that helped hold TikTok from going darkish earlier than my order.”

He additionally outlined a obscure plan for the way he envisions TikTok’s future within the US. “I would really like the US to have a 50% possession place in a three way partnership. By doing this, we save TikTok, hold it in good arms and permit it to say [sic] up. With out U.S. approval, there is no such thing as a Tik Tok.”

I positive hope you aren’t already exhausted by the forwards and backwards ridiculousness of this example as a result of, my mates, it’s not over.