TikTok banned in US with 170 million active users, the US government has bid farewell to it from America. This is a huge loss for TikTok, losing such a large number of active users is not good for TikTok. Preparations for this had started in America from April last year itself. TikTok’s parent company ByteDance was asked to sell its company to any other non-Chinese or shut down its company completely from America. The people of America are very angry and upset with this decision of the US government for TikTok ban US 2025.
Why was TikTok banned in US
A few months ago, the US government also banned the Russian antivirus Kaspersky, and Kaspersky has completely left America. America has made the same allegations against Kaspersky as have been made against TikTok. America believes that Kaspersky Antivirus is stealing sensitive data from America and selling it to the Russian government, due to which America’s private and security information is going out, which the Russian government can or is taking advantage of.
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Similarly, the US government has also said this about TikTok, which can raise questions about America’s internal security. Because TikTok has more than 170 million active users in America who create and edit videos on TikTok every day. Some politicians of the US government also use TikTok. When entering TikTok, TikTok gave a congratulatory message and when leaving, a message “Sorry, TikTok is not available right now” was shown in the app.
During the last election, America had clearly told TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to sell its company to a non-Chinese company or TikTok should leave America completely. For which the US government gave ByteDance 90 days. On this, TikTok took some time and remained in America till now. American officials have informed the government about this many times before, and have said that this is a factor for the security of the country.
Data Breaching by Chinese App
Because the Chinese government wants to steal America’s data by using TikTok as a medium. After Donald Trump’s victory after the election, this was no less than a nightmare for TikTok. Donald Trump will take office on January 20, 2025. TikTok has been completely shut down in America on January 19, 2025, a day before taking office.
After TikTok banned in US, it has now disappeared from both Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store. The people of America are very upset with the departure of TikTok, those who had millions of followers disappeared in one go. People are uploading videos on social media of people crying and lamenting the government’s decision. The US government was also worried that its politicians also use TikTok. Politicians’ phones may contain a lot of important and confidential information which TikTok is hacking and breaching the data.
American citizens are very sad about the departure of TikTok and are waiting for the inauguration and announcement on Monday. People still hope that TikTok will not leave America. But TikTok was removed from the server by the US authorities and now TikTok cannot be downloaded. After TikTok shut down, there is a lot of discussion about it on Reddit. It can definitely be downloaded and used from the website through VPN.
