The popular social network Tiktok He was available for download in Apple and Google application stores in the United States, after the president Donald Trump It will show flexibility before the prohibition that threatens to close the platform in the country.
The return of Tiktok to Apple’s stores and Google They allow both the new downloads of the application in the United States, and updates.
Tiktok It continues to work in the United States thanks to an extension of 75 days that Trump signed on January 21, a day after taking possession as president.
The two companies had retired Tiktok In the US last month to comply with a law approved in 2024. In an executive order on January 20, Donald Trump ordered the attorney general. ”Do not take any action to enforce the law for a period of 75 days from today to allow my administration to determine the appropriate course to follow”
Its decree ordered the Attorney General and the Department of Justice not to apply sanctions or measures to comply with the regulations approved under the mandate of Joe Biden (2021-2025), but whose compliance the latter had left in the hands of the following administration.
This Thursday, President Trump opened the door to extend the deadline Tiktok He has to disconnect from his parent company, the China Bytedance, if he does not want to be closed in the United States
“Surely it can be expanded, but we will see“, said Trump When asked by the press in the Oval Office of the White House. However, he pointed out that “Does not believe it is necessary“, given that, “There are a lot of interested people“In buying Tiktok.
The application of short videos stopped subtracting operational for a few hours in the United States, since the law entered into force the day before the Republican assumed power.
The legislation, approved in April 2024 for national security reasons with the support of Democrats and Republicans, gave Bytedance a period of nine months to sell its operations in the United States to a buyer who was not considered an “adversary” of the country.
A few days ago, Trump He signed an executive order in which he instructed the Treasury and Commerce departments to create a “Sovereign background“That could acquire the video platform.
The president also said days ago that the technological giant Microsoft would be in conversations to acquire Tiktok.
Uncertain future
The measure occurs after weeks of uncertainty about the future of Tiktokand there is still no guarantees that it survives in the US in the long term. The video application was briefly turned off last month to comply with a federal prohibition, and returned after Trump promised to stop the application of the law. But Apple and Google did not restore it immediately in their application stores.
The US Congress approved the prohibition concerned that the popular application could be used to spy on US citizens. China requires their companies to share data with the government if you request it.
The law to protect the Americans from the applications controlled by foreign adversaries was supported by both Democrats and Republicans in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April. Demanded the prohibition of Tiktok throughout the country unless Bytedance undertook a “qualified divestment”Before January 19. That meant that the US part of the business had to be sold.
At the beginning, Trump He supported the ban but changed posture. “I guess I have a place in my heart for Tiktok that I didn’t have before”He said when signing the executive order.
If you do not negotiate an agreement at the beginning of April to address national security concerns around Tiktok’s current property, the application could be closed once again. Bytedance has said that Tiktok is not for sale.
Fine of US $ 11.3 million
China’s Supreme Popular Court condemned the technological Bytedancedeveloper of the social network Tiktokto compensate with 82.7 million yuan (US $ 11.3 million) to the Meishe audiovisual solution company for plagiarized its code.
According to the sentence, Bytedance He used without permission the code of Meishe in eight products, including Douyin, the Chinese version of Tiktok, the Yicai local economic news portal reports today.
Meishe filed the lawsuit in May 2021, and the Chinese courts failed in their favor, granting compensation of 26.7 million yuan (US $ 3.7 million), but neither of the two parties were satisfied and both resorted to the highest judicial instance of the judicial instance of the Asian country.
According to Bytedancethe culprit was a programmer who had previously worked for Meishe and has already been fired.
The technological pointed out that the code in question is equivalent to 0.8% of the total that composes the Douyin software, and advanced that it will carry out internal courses and controls to prevent these types of situations from happening again in the future.
With information from EFE and Bloomberg
Source: Gestion
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