Short video platform TikTok may soon be removed from the app stores of Apple and Google. Two influential US lawmakers, including Indian-American Raja Krishnamurthy, have written to Google and Apple asking them to remove TikTok from their app stores.
ByteDance will have to separate from TikTok
According to a bill signed by then President Joe Biden in April, China’s ByteDance company, which owns TikTok, will have to separate from TikTok by January 19, otherwise it will face US sanctions.
American lawmakers wrote letters to Apple and Google
Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee (CCP) on China Affairs, John Moolnaar and senior member Krishnamurthy wrote a letter to Apple Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and TikTok CEO Sho Ji Chew last Friday.
Proposal sought from TikTok
The lawmakers asked Cook and Pichai to be ready to remove TikTok from their Play Store by January 19. In his letter to TikTok’s CEO, he asked Chew to immediately submit a divestment proposal that he could accept.
may face sanctions
The statement from US lawmakers comes at a time when a federal appeals court has refused to interfere with a law passed by Congress, under which TikTok has to sell its US business to a local company by mid-January or face a ban. Will have to face.
TikTok may challenge in the Supreme Court
The company had challenged the decision of the US government and requested to stop the implementation of the decision till the final decision of the Supreme Court, which was rejected by the Federal Appellate Court. It is believed that TikTok and its parent company ByteDance may challenge the decision of the appellate court in the Supreme Court.
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