Washington: Two US lawmakers, including Indian-American Raja Krishnamurthy, have written to Google and Apple asking them to remove TikTok from their app stores. In April this year, a U.S. bill was changed into law, according to which ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, must separate from TikTok by January 19, 2025. If this doesn’t happen, he will have to face a ban in the United States.
That’s what the letter said
House Standing Committee on China (CCP) Chairman John Moolnaar and Ranking Member Krishnamurthy have written to Apple CEO (CEO) Tim Cook Cook), Google CEO Sundar Pichai and TikTok CEO Sho Ji Chew. Lawmakers gave Cook and Pichai until January 19 to prepare to remove TikTok from their Play Store. In a letter to TikTok’s CEO, they asked Chew to immediately submit a divestment proposal acceptable to him.
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Court refuses to intervene
The statement from U.S. lawmakers came as a court declined to intervene in a law passed by Congress under which TikTok must sell its U.S. operations to a local company by mid-January or face a ban. The company challenged the U.S. government’s decision and requested a stay of enforcement until a final decision, but a federal appeals court rejected the decision. It is believed that TikTok and its parent company ByteDance may challenge the Court of Appeal’s ruling in the Supreme Court. (language)
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