TikTok在美国下线约14小时后恢复服务：称特朗普已向服务商作出不会受罚的保证
2025年1月19日，短视频平台TikTok在美国下线约14小时后开始恢复服务。这家总部位于加利福尼亚州洛杉矶县卡尔弗城一带、在全美拥有约1.7亿用户的平台于1月18日（周六）晚间停止向美国用户提供服务，苹果与谷歌应用商店同步下架该应用；19日下午，TikTok宣布正与服务商一道恢复服务，美国用户的应用陆续重新可用。
停服源于一部已生效的联邦法律。该法要求TikTok的中国母公司字节跳动在2025年1月19日之前剥离其美国业务，否则应用将在全美禁用；美国最高法院1月17日一致裁定该法不违反第一修正案、维持其效力。停服当晚，TikTok向用户弹窗称：一项禁用TikTok的法律已在美国颁布，很遗憾这意味着用户暂时无法使用TikTok。
转机出现在19日上午。候任总统特朗普当天在社交平台发文称，他将于周一就职后发布行政令，延长该法禁令生效前的时间，以便达成保护国家安全的安排，并要求相关公司不要让TikTok持续下线；他同时提议美国在一家合资企业中持有50%的权益。特朗普写道：没有美国的批准，就没有TikTok；有了批准，它价值数千亿美元。
19日下午，TikTok通过其政策账号发布声明：在与我们的服务商达成一致后，TikTok正在恢复服务。声明感谢特朗普向服务商提供了必要的明确性与保证——他们向超过1.7亿美国人提供TikTok、让700多万家小企业得以繁荣，不会因此受到处罚。声明称这是为第一修正案作出的有力表态、反对任意审查，并表示将与特朗普一道寻求让TikTok留在美国的长期解决方案。应用恢复后向用户显示的提示中，TikTok亦将恢复归因于特朗普的努力。
不过，恢复并不等于法律问题已经解决：截至19日，字节跳动尚未出售其美国业务，应用在苹果与谷歌商店仍无法新下载，后续安排取决于新政府的行政令与潜在交易谈判。
关联：最高法院一致裁定 TikTok 剥离法合宪：1月19日大限生效、不剥离即下架
（来源：TikTok）
TikTok Restores U.S. Service After Roughly 14 Hours Dark, Citing Trump's Assurance to Service Providers
On January 19, 2025, the short-video platform TikTok began restoring service in the United States after going dark for roughly 14 hours. The platform, based in the Culver City area of Los Angeles County, California, and used by about 170 million Americans, stopped serving U.S. users on the evening of Saturday, January 18, as Apple and Google removed it from their app stores; on the afternoon of January 19, TikTok announced it was restoring service with its providers, and the app began working again for U.S. users.
The shutdown stemmed from a federal law that had taken effect. The law required TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to divest its U.S. business by January 19, 2025, or face a nationwide ban; on January 17, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld the law against a First Amendment challenge. On the night of the shutdown, TikTok told users in a pop-up notice that a law banning TikTok had been enacted in the United States and that, unfortunately, they could not use TikTok for the time being.
The turn came on the morning of January 19. President-elect Donald Trump posted that after taking office on Monday he would issue an executive order extending the period before the law's prohibitions took effect so that a deal could be made to protect national security, and asked companies not to let TikTok stay dark; he also proposed that the United States hold a 50 percent ownership position in a joint venture. Without U.S. approval, Trump wrote, there is no TikTok; with approval, it is worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
That afternoon, TikTok said in a statement posted through its policy account: in agreement with its service providers, TikTok was in the process of restoring service. The company thanked Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to its service providers that they would face no penalties for providing TikTok to over 170 million Americans and allowing over 7 million small businesses to thrive. It called the move a strong stand for the First Amendment and against arbitrary censorship, and said it would work with Trump on a long-term solution that keeps TikTok in the United States. A notice shown to users as the app returned likewise credited Trump's efforts.
The restoration did not resolve the underlying legal question: as of January 19, ByteDance had not sold its U.S. business, the app remained unavailable for new downloads from the Apple and Google stores, and what followed depended on the incoming administration's executive order and any deal negotiations.
Related: Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds TikTok Divest-or-Ban Law: January 19 Deadline Stands
(Source: TikTok)
来源：TikTok
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图片来源：图：TikTok位于加利福尼亚州卡尔弗城的总部大楼。（Coolcaesar 摄，CC BY 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons） / Photo: TikTok headquarters in Culver City, California. (Coolcaesar, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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