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by frank2 2144 days ago
The US president can probably compel Apple and Google to remove Tiktok from their app stores. Tiktok can appeal that action to the US court system and the US legislature, but those appeals would probably go nowhere.

So a technically inclined Android user or a user of a jailbroken iOS device can probably continue to use Tiktok, with effort, but will have much fewer people to interact with using the service.
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Drew_ 2144 days ago
If the president can't compel Apple/Google to install backdoors, he can't compel them to remove TikTok.
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elpool2 2144 days ago
He could have the commerce department put TikTok on the Entity List, which would prohibit all US companies from doing business with them. It would be unprecedented though because putting a company on the Entity List is almost always tied to some actual criminal activity like trade violations or espionage (see HuaWei).

So there is away for him to do it, but TikTok could challenge it legally.

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kanox 2144 days ago
But would Apple and Google actually resist a TikTok ban?

It wouldn't be surprising to see them ban TikTok voluntarily and receive positive press coverage.

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