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The ban is not targeted directly at TikTok but at the app stores, which will have to pay a fine of $5000 per user if they keep the app available in the store.
If that were true then you would be able to log in through a browser, and you cannot.
You can again where I am. Have you checked recently?

They voluntarily took it down, and now brought back up. If it remains gone from the app stores, I imagine they will eventually take it down again.

The text of the law is something you can look up yourself, we don't have to argue about it!

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521...

Because it’s a stunt. TikTok didn’t need to do that.