US to block TikTok - ByteDance vows to fight back

Talks about a ban have finally progressed past the theoretical stage

Tom Allen
clock • 3 min read
US to block TikTok - ByteDance vows to fight back

TikTok claims a new US law, which requires owner ByteDance to divest it in nine months or a country-wide block, is unconstitutional.

President Joe Biden signed the new law into force after the US Senate voted to approve the legislation. It gives owner ByteDance nine months to divest itself of TikTok, or face a ban across the USA...

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