Even though the government was successful in getting the Supreme Court to uphold the law that could ban TikTok from the US, it doesn’t seem inclined to urgently enforce it.
Now that TikTok has finally reached the end of its legal options in the US to avoid a ban, somehow its future seems less clear than ever. The Supreme Court couldn’t have been more direct: the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, as applied to TikTok, withstands First Amendment scrutiny and can take effect on January 19th.
Meanwhile, app stores and service providers — which are ostensibly banned from supporting TikTok starting on Sunday — have been quiet about their plans. Apple and Google, whose app stores support TikTok, and Oracle, which hosts its data in the US, didn’t respond to requests for comment from The Verge. In his first statement since the ruling, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew gave no insight into how TikTok would handle Sunday’s deadline and instead opted to flatter Trump.
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