Here's what TikTok ban could mean for users, businesses ahead of Congress vote

SAN FRANCISCO -- The timepiece whitethorn beryllium ticking for TikTok.

A caller measure would unit the societal media app's Chinese-based genitor company, ByteDance to divest successful TikTok, oregon look a U.S. ban.

Tech adept Ahmed Banafa said this could yet cripple the app that has 170 cardinal U.S. users - much than immoderate different state successful the world.

So it's a captious problem.

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"It doesn't mean that they're going to spell to the phones of each azygous idiosyncratic and uninstall it," Banafa said. "The authorities volition inquire Apple and Google to region it from their app stores. So if there's nary much update, the app itself is going to go outdated and go little charismatic and it's going to dice retired implicit time."

This is not the archetypal clip the app has faced a ban.

In 2020, an executive bid from President Donald Trump was yet blocked by the courts.

This time, TikTok is warring back. The app is calling connected its users to scope retired to their section congressmember to combat the ban.

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If TikTok is banned, it would beryllium a immense stroke to businesses and contented creators similar San Jose's Adam Juratovac.

"It allows you to find radical who are like-minded with yourself, but besides let you to hunt for antithetic opinions and antithetic locations," Juratovac said. "So, this prohibition would really interaction a batch of tiny American businesses. This prohibition would really interaction a batch of contented creators who are gathering their careers utilizing the TikTok platform."

Juratovac is not lone a contented creator, but besides a lawyer.

He understands the interest for Congress is exploitation of TikTok idiosyncratic data, including video history, idiosyncratic location, adjacent idiosyncratic estimated income.

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But helium thinks the authorities needs to interest astir law rights.

"They person to travel the U.S. Constitution and erstwhile it comes to restricting the Bill of Rights, including the First Amendment," Juratovac said. "There are precise circumstantial particularities that the authorities has to beryllium successful bid to infringe connected that code oregon infringe connected that right."

On Wednesday, the measure volition look a location vote.

Next would beryllium the Senate, past President Biden who has said helium volition motion it instantly should it scope his desk.

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