The prospective TikTok ban – something that terrifies 170 million Americans and an untold number of online entrepreneurs – is rapidly becoming a tangible reality. But until it crystallizes with a signature from US President Joe Biden, nothing is certain, and everyone has questions.
Ever since the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would impose a ban unless TikTok's parent company, the Chinese-owned ByteDance, sold the platform, not a day goes by without someone asking me if TikTok will disappear from App stores and US phones.
Some believe a ban is all but inevitable. I'm not so sure. Even those who support the bill – which now moves to the US Senate – insist that a ban was never the goal.
