The Texas "TikTok" Ban (Texas Government Code Sec. 620) prohibits the state government's, county government's, agency's and municipality government's tech devices from accessing or downloading the TikTok App but is this restriction still valid?

In an effort to confer accuracy - as to date we have found no litigation by any Texas county, municipality, state agency or university attempting to challenge the Texas' Legislature's efforts to control technology that was purchased by that local government or entity.

But the simple unknown question as of this time is this -  "Is such ban's purpose is still valid?".  As of January/February 2026 TikTok operations were purchased by a consortium of U.S. based companies with the original connected foreign owners retaining a minority ownership while user data is allegedly being retained and managed on U.S or friendly nation based servers.  Yet the original foreign owner still retains ownership of the underlying intellectual property being the underlying algorithm. 

Being that the data privacy concerns have been "supposedly" removed - due to now current ownership and location of its managed data - it now calls into question if the underlying basis for such ban still exists. 

Time will ultimately inform us if the new and current majority ownership will result in a change or elimination of the Texas TikTok Ban.

"People v. Tech"