On Friday the company lost a last-ditch ditch effort to have the ban declared unconstituation on free-speach grounds by the Supreme Court. President Joe Biden has already ordered TikTok to separate from its Chinese parent company ByteDance by January 19.
Chinese law requires organisations based in the country to cooperate with the communist party’s intelligence gathering, leading security chiefs in the US to warn that Tiktok could be used as a vehicle to spy on its 170 million American users.
The UK government said there were currently “no plans” to introduce a TikTok ban.
“We engage with all major social media companies to understand their plans for ensuring the security of UK data and to ensure they meet the high data protection and cyber security standards we expect.”
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer may be swayed to follow Trump’s more hawkish instincts when it comes to his policy on China, much as the UK reportedly did in 2020 when it banned Chinese technology giant Huawei from the country’s 5G network.
Keir Starmer is hoping to forge a relationship with Donald Trump (Photo: Alex Brandon/AP)Starmer has gone to great lengths to get his relationship with Trump off to a good start, going for dinner with the president-elect in Trump Tower in New York last September.
Trump, however, has hinted he may not enforce the TikTok ban. He has not yet made a commitment to have it reversed either, telling CNN: “Congress has given me the decision, so I’ll be making the decision.”
How will the US ban affect UK creators?
Most TikTok influencers earn money from brand partnerships, with rates generally tied to engagement and viewership numbers.
A TikTok video posted by UK-based content creators the Gilbert Twins featured the text: “Me calculating how many followers I’m going to lose when TikTok is banned in the US”.
@thegilberttwinsAccording to our calculations we’ll have 0 followers left Jk but please don’t go y’all Follow us on the other apps if you still want to see our content. We’ll miss you and hope this isn’t goodbye
♬ Law & Order – Mike PostAnother British creator Keith Afadi told the newspaper: “I know people who’ve just quit their jobs [to become creators] and then this is about to happen. And now they might need to go back and look at another job. And I’d be lying if I said I haven’t thought about that myself.”
The biggest impact could be felt by British businesses on TikTok Shop, the platform’s growing e-commerce branch.
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“We have decided to put our expansion plans there on hold,” Gallant said.
Chris Dawson, editor-in-chief of the e-commerce news site ChannelX, said: “While Instagram and YouTube are lining up waiting for TikTok to go dark, the reality is that neither platform can replace TikTok Shop nor the TikTok affiliate network.”
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