Washington [US], December 15: Reuters reported on December 13 that the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has rejected TikTok's request related to a law requiring ByteDance Company (China) to sell TikTok, or the short video application will be banned in the US next month.
TikTok has asked the appeals court to delay the law's implementation, but has failed and said it will take the case to the US Supreme Court. The law stipulates that ByteDance will have until January 19, 2025, to divest TikTok's US subsidiary .
The US government has long stressed that TikTok's ownership by a Chinese company poses a national security risk given its access to user data. On the same day, December 13, the US House Committee on China Affairs asked the leaders of two US technology companies, Apple and Alphabet, to be ready to remove TikTok from the US app store.
Trump's View on TikTok
In an interview with NBC News on December 9, US President-elect Donald Trump also expressed his opinion on the US federal appeals court last week upholding the law requiring Chinese company ByteDance to divest from the social network TikTok before 2025 or TikTok will be banned in the US.
The leader said he would seek to protect TikTok so that other companies would not become monopolies. Mr. Trump said he had used TikTok very successfully during his campaign, winning the support of young people by a margin of 30% compared to his opponent. According to NBC News' verification, although Mr. Trump has won the most support from people under 30 years old among Republican presidential candidates since 2008, among voters aged 18-29, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris has 54% support and Mr. Trump only has 43%.
"I use TikTok so I can't completely hate it. It's very effective. But I will say this, if you do that (ban TikTok), something else will come along and take that spot and maybe that's not fair. They have the right to ban it if they can prove that Chinese companies own it. That's what the judge said," Mr. Trump said.
Source: Thanh Nien Newspaper
