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Washington, DC – 13. Marta: Participants hold signs in support of tiktok in front of the US Capitol building, 13. March 2024. in Washington, DC. (Photo: Anna Moneimaker / Getty Images)
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From President Trump’s First Attempted Nylinal Storage earlier this year, in five-year birth of five-year hose of tantok seems to finally slow down now that Trump has revealed a contract framework In order for Apatedences to be kept alive in the US
The view of the Saga around Tiktok, however, is only shown as the app was closed to close from the United States – as closely prevented the ban and forced sales, which found rarely biparted in Washington.
Repeating ticktok’s dramatic five-year-old battle
When I talked to Brendan Carr Carr, for example, the future FCC presiding was already safe at the time that Tiktok’s days were numbered. For litany of perceived sins – all of the cozy ratio of the parent company with Chinese regimes in proposive application is already already convinced, at least during your conversation with me, yes: “The tide goes out in tiktok.”
In fact, in fact, one of the few issues that seemed to be the Washington Legislator agrees. Even at the time, President Biden was on board, and said Thrumums, the ban on tiktok from his first deadline and signed him in law.
“Now he feels different than two years ago at the end of the Trump Administration, when he first raised concern,” Carr said, then told me, in August 2022. Years. “I think, like many things in Trump in Trump, people somehow chose the parties based on the fact that it’s Trump.” One thing led to another, and looked like Carr was probably right. If the tide, really, was going out.
And then it came back.
The American government is in the immediate vicinity that the tiktok application would keep alive in the country. (Photo Matt Cardi / Getty Images)
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Three years of that conversation, tiktok is finally ready to fasten a contract on all the chances to lock in place – conditions set to include a new application with a built tiktok exclusively for US users. User data new applications would be located in the US and (according to The Wall Street Journal), The American job would control the investment group involving Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Chorowitz.
However, no one is involved, the champagne still erupts.
Tiktok’s stone trip in the last five years – plus participation of the Meretal American president who was on both sides of this debate in various times – is a good reminder as everything that is nothing here.
For some time, to Carra’s point, it really looked like ticktok was not a debt for this world. What started 2020. Year with Trump move to ban the application at the end of the balloon in one of Washington and Big Tech, with about 170 million users stuck in the middle.
Since then, Forbes has reported extensively on tiktok’s troubles, from data security and privacy risk in the difficult hand of his Chinese parent, substrate. The reporting revealed uncovered cases in which he was elected in tontok to follow journalists, showed that sensitive user data was available in China and discovered a company’s awareness of potential harm.
Legal struggles and privacy scandals: tiktok under fire
Return to the summer of 2020. year, then President Trump declared a tickta National Security Threat. He performed an executable order asking that the underground finds its American operations – or the application would be released from the American app stores. The courts, however, quickly entered and blocked the order, referring to the trembling legal body and first problems with amendments.
Tiktok Ecral Screen (Illustration Photos from Drew Angerer / Getty Images)
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In the meantime, it began to become a high profile contract: Oracle and Valmart teamed up to buy ticktok’s American business, but negotiations have broken down. With federal judges who stop the ban and was not finalized sales, tiktok survived the first trump years of bruises, but intact.
When Joe Biden attended the function, the Democratic President did not allow ticktok with a hook (although he took away the Trump’s executive order). After Biden Administration ordered a wide range of foreign ownership applications, Tiktok tried to progress with the supervision with the “project of Texas”, to force USA data on Oracle servers and created a new subsidiary with American supervision.
Problem: Nobody in Washington didn’t look convinced that that was enough. MPs remained cautious, especially after they were chosen at 2022. year that employees were improperly approached by American journalists (Thanks to Blockbuster Forbes reporting).
Congress finally reinforced spring 2024. years, the adoption of the law who gave nine months to sell tiktok or faced a ban. When the Supreme Court confirmed in January 2025. year, the watch began ticking because the sharing countdown began.
Trump turn and short ticktokov 2025 Blackout
And here’s where the story of the hardest turn:
Trump, back to the trail of the presidential campaign, he did a complete flip flop.
At that moment, only before choosing 2024. He moved himself to warn only on Facebook, of course, by Mark Zuckerberg, the General Manager Trump was soon soon after he changed it to compile in the top megadonor to compile. Probably just a coincidence.
Trump also joined Sam Tiktok, with her Personal account You get millions of followers quickly and helping him connect with younger voters in his return of 2024 campaign. Years. Once he returned to the White House, then he was faced with the law who criticized.
19. January 2025. year, Tiktok went dark in the US – 12-hour darkening sent to Panic – before Trump, the oath for just a few hours earlier, he signed an execution order. Since then, the deadline for rest or ban has hit the road several times. Earlier this week, Trump authorized the fourth prohibition extension, in order to allow more time to complete the agreement that seems finally together.
