Several options exist, from preventing Google and Apple offering the app, to blocking its servers.
"We may be banning TikTok," President Trump told reporters, saying an announcement could come as soon as this weekend.One obvious starting place would be to order Apple and Google to remove the app from their online stores.
A Brazilian judge once threatened to force the two firms to use the power in 2014, but ultimately backed off. Congress has already voted in favour of the idea and the Senate is still considering it. But that would be a much less dramatic move than Trump seems to be hinting at. The US tech giant would presumably be viewed as a more trustworthy guardian of the data the app collects, and assuage fears the China might still be somehow accessing its logs.What does TikTok say?"One hundred million Americans come to TikTok for entertainment and connection.
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