A federal appeals panel Friday rejected TikTok's request that the court pause its ruling and the Jan 19th deadline for a sale.

Summary

TikTok’s request to pause a pending ban and January 19th sale deadline was denied by a federal appeals court.

The court upheld the constitutionality of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, citing national security concerns.

TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has until January 19th to sell or face a ban.

  • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
    8·
    17 hours ago

    Platform is kill. Most of the users are quite casual and not technically inclined and will simply give up if they can’t reinstall the application from the store.