Continuing to be one of the world’s most popular social media platforms TikTok, to lift the upcoming US ban. trying.
TikTok is taking important legal steps to lift the ban that will come into force in the USA on January 19. However, the company has not been able to get what it wanted so far. When the appeal court did not accept the lifting of the ban, the platform asked the high court to intervene in the process. It is not yet known how this will turn out, so it is reported that TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will have a face-to-face meeting with the new US president Donald Trump. As far as Trump has come up before He wants to take steps to try to prevent TikTok from being completely banned in the US. During his election campaign, the new president promised voters to save the popular social media application if he was elected. The US states that the ban will only be lifted if Chinese parent company ByteDance divests TikTok. TikTok had received bad news from Canada before. Country with billions of users TikTok of the platform (Exclusive to ByteDance) It had decided to halt its commercial activities in the country due to undisclosed national security risks.
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However, use and access to the app was not banned. Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, François-Philippe Champagne, said in his official statement about the step taken: ““The decision is based on the information gathered and the recommendations of Canada’s security and intelligence agencies and other government partners.” he said. Canada also banned the use of TikTok on government-provided devices.
The platform, which focuses especially on young people, has been targeted mostly by the USA lately. For example, several US state/territory attorneys general recently came together and filed a lawsuit against the platform, alleging that it harms the mental health of children and misleads the public about how safe its platform is. “Our investigations have revealed that TikTok is creating social media addiction to increase corporate profits.The plaintiffs state that the popular platform deliberately targets children. The platform allegedly acts knowing that children do not yet have an effective defense capacity against addictive content. He does not accept the accusations made and states that many of the accusations are false and misleading. Within the scope of the lawsuit, the platform is asked to make significant changes in the mentioned issues and be fined.