In recent days, President Donald Trump announced a U.S. ban Tik Tok, an extremely popular application that features short videos where their creators often dance or lip-sync to viral audio clips. Trump issued the ban because U.S. officials have become increasingly concerned that the Chinese government could access personal information about Americans who use TikTok. Tik Tok is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.

How does the government remove an application from its users, and can it in fact remove it 100 percent?