Tiktok, video exchange platform, on Friday took a break on Friday after the President of the United States Donald TrumpTo announce that he will sign an order in order to maintain an application in the action in the United States for another 75 days, which gives his administration more time to find a new American owner.
The order was announced when the White House employees believed that they were approaching an agreement on applications that would be transformed into a new American company and managed by most US investors, and current Chinese owners in the position of a minority, according to the person familiar with the subject.
But Beijing fought with an agreement on Thursday, after Trump announced the imposition Customs tariffs All over the world, including against China.
BYTEDANCE representatives called on the White House to indicate that China would no longer approve the transaction until there were negotiations on trade and tariffs, said that a person who spoke on anonymity conditions to discuss delicate details of negotiations.
The US Congress demanded that the platform be alienated from China to January 19 or will be prohibited in the United States for reasons of national security, but Trump unilaterally advanced to extend the term of April 5, trying to agree on an agreement in order to preserve it in action.
Race to find an American buyer
Trump recently received A series of sentences From American companies seeking to buy part of a popular site of social networks, but the Chinese Baedance, which has Tiktok and its algorithm, publicly insisted that the platform is not sold.
But on Friday it became uncertain whether the preliminary agreement was announced after the Chinese government changed its position, which complicated Tiktok’s ability to send clear signs of the nature of the agreement achieved from the fear of his negotiations with Chinese regulators.
Instead, Trump announced that he was signing an executive order to extend the 75 -day break in the ban, which should enter into force on Saturday, the day when the initial expansion should end.
Close intake was built for several months, when the team of the Vice President JD Vance for negotiations directly with various potential investors and employees of ByTedance.
The plan is provided for the 120 -day closing period to complete the documentation and financing. The business also had the approval of the current investors, new investors, Baitans and management.
The Trump administration was sure that China would approve the proposed agreement before the tariff entered into force. Trump indicated on Friday that more He can come to an agreement Within 75 days expansion.
“Potential solution” fell out of the tension of tariffs
“My administration worked very hard in the Tiktok salvation agreement, and we have achieved great progress,” Trump wrote on his social networks platform.
“The agreement requires more work to ensure the signing of all necessary permits, so I signed an executive order to maintain Tiktok for another 75 days.”
Trump added: “We are looking forward to working with Tiktok and China to close the deal.”
The BYTEDANCE representative confirmed in his statement that the company is discussing a “potential decision” with the US government, but noted that “the agreement was not implemented”.
“There are fundamental issues that need to be resolved,” the representative said. “Any agreement will be subject to the approval of the Chinese law.”
Tiktok, which has a headquarters in Singapore and Los -Angeles, said that it devotes the priority of users’ safety, and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the Chinese government never asked companies to “collect or provide secret data, information or services” detained in foreign countries.
Trump’s defective position is marked by himself for the second time, when he temporarily blocks The law of 2024 Which prohibited the popular social video application after the expiration of the period for disinfection.
This law was adopted with two -party support by the country’s congress and unanimously confirmed by the US Supreme Court, which stated that the ban was necessary for national security.
The struggle for control over the Tictock algorithm
If the extension maintains control over Tiktok’s algorithm as part of the Baitedance authorities, these fears remain about national security.
Chris Parson, General Director of the BlackCloak Privacy Platform and Protecting Privacy, said that if the algorithm continues to be controlled by Baedance, he continues to be controlled by a company that belongs to a foreign and opponent national state, which can actually use these data for other purposes. ”
“The main reason for all this is data control and the algorithm control,” said Pirson, who was a member of the Committee on Privacy and the Cybersecurity of the Department of Internal Security for more than ten years.
“If none of these two things change, then the main goal has not changed, and the main risks that are presented have not changed.”
The executive orders of the President of the Republican created more than 130 lawsuits for a little more than two months, in which he was in his post, but his order to postpone the ban on Tiktok almost called a Pio.
None of these processes dispute the temporary blockade of the law that prohibits the tickton.
The law allows extension for 90 days, but only if there is an agreement on the table and an official notification to Congress. Trump’s actions are still violated by the law, said Alan Rosenstein, associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota.
Rosenstein objected to Trump’s statement that to postpone the ban is an “extension”.
“He does not spread anything. This remains just a unilateral statement about non -broadcasting, ”he said. “Everything he does is to say that he will not apply the law for another 75 days. The law is still valid. Companies continue to violate it by providing Tiktok services.
“The risks for national security installed by Tiktok are preserved with this extension,” he said.
Apos when calling the law on the prohibition of Tiktok
Vitus Sphar, which is controlled by Tiktok @Underthedesknews, said that although they benefit from the extension, they are “concerned about the precedent that Trump created to send his Ministry of Justice not to apply the laws adopted by Congress.”
“I would like to approve the bill in order to cancel the ban and finish, it goes forever,” they said.
The expansion occurs at a time when the Americans are even more divided into what to do with Tiktok than two years ago.
A recent study by Pew Research Center showed that about a third of the Americans said that they supported Tiktoka’s ban on 50 percent in March 2023.
About the third she stated that he would withstand the ban, and a similar percentage said that he was not sure.
Among those who said that support for the ban on the platform of social networks, according to the report, is about eight out of 10 references to data security, subject to data security, as an important factor in their solution.