TikTok Officially Banned in the USA! Platform Access Closed

TikTok, one of the world’s largest social media platforms, was facing a ban in the USA. US officials banned ByteDance from the country on the grounds that the company was working with the Chinese government. It will be banned if it is not sold to another company. decided and for this to January 19 time was given. The US Supreme Court approved the ban a few days ago, showing that there was no longer any escape.

That day has come. TikTok was not sold to a company in the USA and the ban decision came into force. Platform, It is closed in the country as of today. At the same time, applications such as CapCut and Marvel Snap have become inaccessible in the USA.

One of TikTok’s biggest markets was undoubtedly the USA. So much so that, according to estimates, the platform Around 170 million users is located in the country. However, as of today, none of these users can access the application.

You can see the message the company sent to users from the application above. In this message, it was stated that TikTok is temporarily unavailable due to the ban decision taken by the USA.

In fact, the Biden government said that the decision on what will happen to TikTok will be left to the new Trump government, which will come to power on Monday, January 20. was transferred he had stated. However, due to the decision of the Supreme Court, the ban had to come into force this weekend, and TikTok stated that it would close down due to the lack of necessary statements from the government. And so it was.

Could reopen soon after Trump takes office

Although TikTok is inaccessible today, this shutdown may not last long. So much so that Donald Trump said in his statement It is possible to extend the period given to TikTok for another 90 days. and announced that it is ready to cooperate with the platform.

In the message sent by the platform to users, President Trump’s statements were pointed out and it was seen that they expected to work together to reopen TikTok.

In short, the period during which TikTok remained closed in the USA It might not take too long. It all depends on what moves Trump will make. We can see it opening directly in a few days. Although Trump initially supported the ban, he has recently stated that he wants to resolve the situation. We’ll wait and see what happens.