What happens after the TikTok ban?
TikTok and its China-based owner ByteDance, which is seeking to block a law signed by president Joe Biden that will ban the short-form video app beginning Jan. 19 unless it is divested from ByteDance, due to national security concerns. TikTok requested an injunction to pause the ban during the legal process, but the Supreme Court did not immediately act on the request.
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What happens to the app?
New users will not be able to download TikTok from app stores and existing users will not be able to update the app, because the law prohibits any entity from facilitating the download or maintenance of the TikTok application. In a December 13 letter, US lawmakers told Apple and Alphabet's Google, which operate the two main mobile app stores, that they must be ready to remove TikTok from their stores on January 19.
Cloud service provider Oracle could see some disruption to its work with TikTok. Oracle hosts TikTok's US user data on its servers, reviews the app's source code and delivers the app to the app stores.
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