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Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it
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It will be interesting to see if tiktoks newest big selling point (relatively free from US influence) will be able to offset it's loss in users.
It's doubtful that Tiktok would even agree to sell and there is precedent in the courts that a Tiktok ban is unconstitutional considering it's already been blocked in Montana.
Then there's the entire notion over the fact that Apple is ALREADY under fire for anti-competitive practices involving the app store and remove the ability for all iDevices to access the app with no other way to access it outside of the app store will just add more fuel to that case.
It's likely that they will form a new organization in the US, so they can operate in that country and still have Tik Tok alive. My expectation is that the US based Tik Tok would still interact with the world, but block China.
Any sale would have to be approved by the Chinese government so that is definitely not happening.
I didn't suggest to sale the Chinese company. I suggest to create a new one in the US from the same organization in China. This is a normal practice that is being done for many years by many companies to overcome limitations from those countries.