Tiktok returns to Apple, Google App stores

Tiktok returned to apple and Google App stores Thursday evening.

Chinese social media application was removed from The two stores On January 18, moments after the Tijook leadership temporarily stopped service in the United States in response to the National Security Law, which came into effect the next day.

Almost a month later, Tiktok is available again to download Apple App Store and Google Play.

Internet service providers such as Apple, Google and Oracle It can incur severe penalties for violating the Americans’ Law on the Act of Applications subject to foreign opponent. This law, which is the former president Joe Biden Fell In April, China -based BYTEDANCE is asking to strip its American operations on January 19 or face an effective prohibition of application in the country.

Tiktok argue that law The rights of the first amendment violates more than 170 million American users, while the US government has taken the issue that the ownership of Betanance and its alleged relations with the People’s Republic of China make the application the risks of national security. the Stop the Supreme Court with The Biden administration said in January, and in the opinion, “Congress has decided that the liquidation is necessary to address its well -backed national security fears regarding TIKTOK data collection practices and its relationship with a foreign opponent.”

Tiktok prompted the Supreme Court’s decision, and followed it with it to threaten To close its American operations unless it is Biden Administration to intervene.

The application Online After the president Donald Trump He said he would postpone the enforcement of the ban. He signed an executive order on his first day in office to extend the deadline of the law for 75 days to April 5.

Trump He said On the social truth platform, “the United States would like to have a 50 % royal position in a joint venture” in order to “save Tiktok, preserve it in Amina’s hands and allow it to say.”

Although it was removed from two applications for about a month, Tiktok has regained about 90 % of the traffic that you saw before the deadline of the law on January 19, CNBC mentioned In late January, quoting data from the Cloudflare radar.

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