US Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban

The US Supreme Court has upheld the law which bans TikTok in the US unless it's sold by January 19. To be clear, the ban only requires Apple and Google to remove the app from their app stores, it doesn't outright ban the app's use in the States.

That said, TikTok has already announced that it will completely shut down in the US if the ban is upheld, in a possible act of grandstanding meant to at least put a hold on the ban.

Now, incoming US President Donald Trump could do that, but the problem is the ban goes into effect 24 hours before he is inaugurated, so for those 24 hours at least it's highly likely that TikTok will be removed from the aforementioned app stores. Whether it shuts down completely, preventing people in the US from using the app, is of course TikTok's decision.

Earlier this week, a report claimed Trump would sign an executive order giving TikTok an additional 60 or 90 days to comply with the law - aka sell its US operations. TikTok CEO Shou Chew is expected to attend Trump's inauguration on Monday alongside Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk.

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