TikTok goes offline in the US hours before ban due to come in

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TikTok has argued that the law violates free speech protections for its 170 million users in the country.

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the law, passed in April last year, banning the app in the US unless its China-based parent company, ByteDance, sold the platform by Sunday, which it has not done.

TikTok has gone offline in the US, hours before a new law banning the platform was due to come into effect.

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Topics: Banning Takes Platform Office Trump Users Tiktok Been Message Monday

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Published On: 2025-01-19 @ 04:46:29 (20 hours ago)

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