Local TikTok influencers weigh in on SCOTUS ruling in favor of banning app

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The timepiece is ticking connected TikTok.

Friday, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a instrumentality banning the app starting Sunday implicit fears the Chinese Communist Party could request accusation connected U.S.-based users.

This means Apple and Google indispensable propulsion it from app stores.

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Lauren Chun uses the level to spotlight hidden gems astir Fresno.

"I'm sad. I consciousness similar TikTok has created specified a assemblage for people. Especially close present with things similar the LA wildfires and stuff, gofundme's and people's stories that would not person been capable to beryllium shared to this galore radical if it wasn't for thing similar TikTok," said Local TikToker, Lauren Chun.

Michael Castillo, amended known arsenic "Mikeythefoodieguy," visits Valley restaurants and saw his videos' immense impact.

"I started getting messages from restaurants telling me, 'Hey bro, we had a enactment retired the door, everyone said they saw it connected TikTok connected your page,' truthful I said, hey, well, it's helping people, conscionable support it going," said Castillo.

"There is nary uncertainty that, for much than 170 cardinal Americans, TikTok offers a distinctive and expansive outlet for expression, means of engagement, and root of community," the ruling states. "But Congress has determined that divestiture is indispensable to code its well-supported nationalist information concerns regarding TikTok's information postulation practices and narration with a overseas adversary."

Fresno State Marketing prof Dr. Breck Harris says a prohibition volition pb to economical losses.

"The effect of these 7 cardinal businesses utilizing TikTok itself. They make astir 15 cardinal dollars a twelvemonth successful e-commerce sales. So the nonaccomplishment of this level is going to person a important interaction connected our American economy," said Dr. Breck Harris.

Users are protesting by flocking to Chinese-owned apps "RedNote" and "Lemon8."

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But nary are similar TikTok.

"I'm hopeful that determination could beryllium thing similar. But close now, it's benignant of hard to tell. I, I can't adjacent ideate if determination could be, you know," said Chun.

"You could find galore antithetic videos, whether its comic videos, cooking videos, adjacent nutrient videos, similar mine. People emotion TikTok, and its a shame that its going to get banned," said Castillo.

The enforcement of the prohibition volition present beryllium up to President-elect Trump's administration.

Friday, helium posted to Truth Social to "stay tuned" for a determination successful the not-too-distant future.

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