{"id":16809,"date":"2024-12-06T16:39:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T15:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/06\/us-appeals-court-upholds-law-forcing-sale-or-ban-of-tiktok\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T16:39:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T15:39:51","slug":"us-appeals-court-upholds-law-forcing-sale-or-ban-of-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/06\/us-appeals-court-upholds-law-forcing-sale-or-ban-of-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"US appeals court upholds law forcing sale or ban of TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision is latest twist in a years-long battle between the social media company and the US government<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/tiktok\">TikTok<\/a> is one step closer to facing a ban in the US. A federal appeals court ruled on Friday to uphold a law that forces the hugely popular social media company to sell its assets to a US company or be barred from the country entirely. The decision is the latest twist in a years-long battle between TikTok, which is owned by Chinese-based ByteDance, and the US government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTikTok\u2019s millions of users will need to find alternative media of communication,\u201d said the judge, Douglas Ginsburg. \u201cThat burden is attributable to [China\u2019s] hybrid commercial threat to US national security, not to the US government, which engaged with TikTok through a multi-year process in an effort to find an alternative solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/dec\/06\/tiktok-sale-ban-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/58dcb285d982362a9fa8483e1bf36570d54e654e\/0_0_5074_3044\/master\/5074.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=de1c2b60bb2cb1fb3386b5c680fbb9ab\" title=\"US appeals court upholds law forcing sale or ban of TikTok\" \/>Decision is latest twist in a years-long battle between the social media company and the US government<br \/>\nTikTok is one step closer to facing a ban in the US. A federal appeals court ruled on Friday to uphold a law that forces the hugely popular social media company to sell its assets to a US company or be barred from the country entirely. The decision is the latest twist in a years-long battle between TikTok, which is owned by Chinese-based ByteDance, and the US government.<br \/>\n\u201cTikTok\u2019s millions of users will need to find alternative media of communication,\u201d said the judge, Douglas Ginsburg. \u201cThat burden is attributable to [China\u2019s] hybrid commercial threat to US national security, not to the US government, which engaged with TikTok through a multi-year process in an effort to find an alternative solution.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision is latest twist in a years-long battle between the social media company and the US government TikTok is one step closer to facing a ban in the US. A federal appeals court ruled on Friday to uphold a law that forces the hugely popular social media company to sell its assets to a US &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/06\/us-appeals-court-upholds-law-forcing-sale-or-ban-of-tiktok\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US appeals court upholds law forcing sale or ban of TikTok<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16809"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}