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Washington: Two US lawmakers, including Indian-American Raja Krishnamurthy, have written to Google and Apple asking them to remove TikTok from their app stores. In April, a bill was changed into law in the US, according to which the Chinese company ByteDance, which owns TikTok, will have to separate from it by January 19, 2025. If this does not happen, he will have to face a ban in America.
This was said in the letter
House of Representatives Standing Committee on China Affairs (CCP) Chairman John Moolnaar and senior member Krishnamurthy have written letters to Apple Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and TikTok CEO Sho Ji Chew. Lawmakers have asked Cook and Pichai to be ready to remove TikTok from their Play Store by January 19. In their letter to TikTok’s CEO, they asked Chew to immediately submit a divestment proposal that he could accept.
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Court refused to intervene
The statement by US lawmakers comes at a time when a court has refused to interfere in a law passed by Congress under which TikTok has to sell its US business to a local company by mid-January or face a ban. Will have to face. The company had challenged the US government’s decision and requested to put the execution of the decision on hold until the final decision, which was rejected by the Federal Appeals Court. It is believed that TikTok and its parent company ByteDance may challenge the decision of the appellate court in the Supreme Court. (Language)
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