{"id":20399,"date":"2025-01-19T03:18:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T04:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20399"},"modified":"2025-01-19T04:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T04:25:08","slug":"tiktok-starts-going-dark-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20399","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Starts Going Dark in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The popular video app stopped working shortly after signaling to users it might go offline, with a federal law barring U.S. companies from hosting or distributing TikTok set to take effect on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSorry, TikTok isn\u2019t available right now,\u201d the message read.<\/p>\n

Hours before a federal law banning TikTok from the United States<\/a> was set to take effect on Sunday, the Chinese-owned social media app went dark, and U.S. users could no longer access videos on the platform. Instead, the app greeted them with a message that said \u201ca law banning TikTok has been enacted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution,\u201d the message said. \u201cPlease stay tuned!\u201d<\/p>\n

TikTok also appeared to have been removed from Apple and Google\u2019s U.S. app stores, some users said. TikTok\u2019s sister app, Lemon8, also stopped working and showed U.S. users a message saying that it \u201cisn\u2019t available right now.\u201d Both TikTok and Lemon8 are owned by ByteDance, a Chinese internet giant.<\/p>\n

TikTok became unavailable after the Supreme Court decision on Friday upholding the law<\/a>, which calls for ByteDance to sell the app by Sunday or otherwise face a ban. The law was passed overwhelmingly by Congress last year and signed by President Biden. TikTok, which has faced national security concerns for its Chinese ties, had believed it could win its legal challenge to the law, but failed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The blackout capped a chaotic stretch for TikTok, which had made last-minute pleas to both the Biden administration and President-elect Donald J. Trump for a way out of the law. Until Saturday night, no one \u2014 including the U.S. government \u2014 was entirely sure what would happen to it when the law took effect. The United States has never blocked an app used by tens of millions of Americans essentially overnight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The popular video app stopped working shortly after signaling to users it might go offline, with a federal law barring U.S. companies from hosting or distributing TikTok set to take effect on Sunday.\u201cSorry, TikTok isn\u2019t available right now,\u201d the message read.Hours before a federal law banning TikTok from the United States was set to take effect on Sunday, the Chinese-owned social media app went dark, and U.S. users could no longer access videos on the platform. Instead, the app greeted them with a message that said \u201ca law banning TikTok has been enacted.\u201d\u201cWe are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution,\u201d the message said. \u201cPlease stay tuned!\u201dTikTok also appeared to have been removed from Apple and Google\u2019s U.S. app stores, some users said. TikTok\u2019s sister app, Lemon8, also stopped working and showed U.S. users a message saying that it \u201cisn\u2019t available right now.\u201d Both TikTok and Lemon8 are owned by ByteDance, a Chinese internet giant.TikTok became unavailable after the Supreme Court decision on Friday upholding the law, which calls for ByteDance to sell the app by Sunday or otherwise face a ban. The law was passed overwhelmingly by Congress last year and signed by President Biden. TikTok, which has faced national security concerns for its Chinese ties, had believed it could win its legal challenge to the law, but failed.The blackout capped a chaotic stretch for TikTok, which had made last-minute pleas to both the Biden administration and President-elect Donald J. Trump for a way out of the law. Until Saturday night, no one \u2014 including the U.S. government \u2014 was entirely sure what would happen to it when the law took effect. The United States has never blocked an app used by tens of millions of Americans essentially overnight.U.S. users of TikTok were greeted with a message on Saturday night saying the service had been disrupted.TikTokWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20401,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20402,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20399\/revisions\/20402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}