Donald Trump, the recently elected president of the United States, has changed his mind about TikTok and has assured that will allow the application of Chinese origin to continue operating in the North American countryaccording to statements collected by Reuters.
“We’re going to have to start thinking about TikTok, because we had a great response there with billions and billions of views,” Trump stressed during AmericaFest, a gathering held year after year by the conservative group Turning Point.
“They showed me a graph [de las estadísticas de TikTok] and seeing it was so beautiful that, while I was looking at it, I said to myself: ‘Maybe we should keep this idiot a little longer,'” the Republican president added sarcastically.
In any case, Trump would have a very difficult time approving TikTok’s operations in the United States, since the same country approved a law to divest said platform that will come into effect on January 19, just 1 day before Trump takes office as president.
Although, at the moment, it is unknown if this law will end up coming into force, because The United States Supreme Court has admitted TikTok’s claimwhich will present the allegations to the regulations on December 27.
For the platform of Chinese origin, accused of espionage and threat to national security, this represents a violation of the First Amendment, since it prohibits access to the 170 million users who use the app in the country.
For his part, Trump has already assured at some point that he has “a special affection for TikTok”, although if this new law finally arrives, the president would not be able to do anything either.
In this sense, There are 2 possibilities if the sentence is final: the sale of TikTok to a third party that can operate in the United States or the total ban. However, we must also pay attention to what happens behind the scenes.
During his first term, Trump was against TikTok, although now he has completely changed his position, meeting with Shou Chew, CEO of the platform, according to what he learned. Business Insider from a person familiar with the encounter.
As for TikTok, its defense lies in the fact that the data of users in the United States is stored on servers in the same country, in addition to the fact that the human moderation teams also reside there.
For now, we will have to wait for the final court ruling, although in that case not even Trump could save TikTok from the purchase or a total ban.
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