Montana becomes the first American country to stop TikTok

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed the document in law on Wednesday.

To protect Montana residents, personal and private data from the Chinese Communist Party, I banned TikTok in Montana”, Gianforte said after the law was signed.

The new decision prohibits companies from offering this app on January 1st of next year, and prevents TikTok from operating as business in the state.

For every day that this platform will be accessible, after strengthening the law, app providers will have to pay fines of $10,000.

Users will not be fined, and those who used the app in the past will not be affected by the decision.

TickTok has not yet reacted to this legal change.

In the coming days, there is likely to be complaints or indictments challenging this decision, with the excuses of freedom of expression.

owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, TikTok has already been banned from government equipment in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Britain, and the United States.

All these countries have mentioned cyber security concerns as reasons for stopping.

The application has more than one billion users worldwide, and is widely used in the US and Europe.

There are concerns that Chinese authorities and the secret services, can use the app to collect information from users, and then spread influence.

The company, on the other hand, has rejected these suggestions.