Apple and Google should remove Tikkok from app stores by January 19th

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US-Gesetzgeber fordern Apple und Google auf, TikTok bis zum 19. Januar aus den App-Stores zu entfernen. Ein Gesetz zur nationalen Sicherheit könnte das Ende der App für Millionen US-Nutzer bedeuten.
US legislators ask Apple and Google to remove Tikok from the app stores by January 19. A law on national security could mean the end of the app for millions of US users. (Symbolbild/DNAT)

US legislators require the tech giants Google and Apple to remove Tikok on January 19 from their app stores. This claim was expressed in a letter from the two chairman of the China Committee of the House of Representatives, Republican Member John Moolenaar and democratic MP Raja Krishnamoorthi, to which companies of the companies.

background of the claim

Last week, a US Federal Court of Appeal confirmed a law that obliges the China-based company bytedance to sell Tikok in the United States or to be confronted with a ban. Around 170 million Americans use the app.

call to the action

Moolenaar and Krishnamoorthi also asked the CEO of Tikkok, Shou Zi Chew, to sell the app: "The congress has a decision to defend the national security of the United States and to protect the American users of Tikok from the China Communist Party," wrote the legislators. "We urge Tiktok to implement a qualified sale immediately."

reactions of companies

Apple, Alphabet and Tikkok have not yet commented on the allegations. On Monday, Bytedance and Tiktok took on a Emergency application US Colonel Courts is checked.

consequences of the possible prohibition

The Ministry of Justice said on Wednesday that if the ban on January 19, should "not directly prohibit the further use of Tikok" by Apple or Google users who have already downloaded the app. However, it was admitted that the restrictions on support offers will ultimately lead to the application that the application will no longer be functional.

warnings from TikTok

In response to this, Tikkok said on Thursday that-as long as there is no court order-the law means that the app will be removed from the app stores on January 19 and "for half of the population that the app is not yet used will no longer be available." The company warned that the end of the support services "make the platform unable to act in the United States and make it completely unusable."

political statements

Bytedance and Tiktok recalled that the designated President Donald Trump swore to prevent Tikok prohibitions. The Republican Senator Josh Hawley expressed the hope that Bytedance TIKTOK will sell because the law does not allow any exceptions. "The legal text is what it is," said Hawley in an interview. "The main problem is that it is subject to China's supervision - that's the problem."