• @[email protected]
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    9014 hours ago

    Fucking wild that the House and Senate are just allowing him to take their power over establishing law.

    It was a ban put in place by a piece of legislation passed by both chambers. It needed to be resolved the same way.

    We are now in a dictatorship.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      3314 hours ago

      I didn’t even want Tiktok to be banned in the first place… but even I can see how dangerous this is.

    • @[email protected]
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      2113 hours ago

      From TFA:

      The law banning TikTok, which was scheduled to go into effect Sunday, allows the president to grant a 90-day extension before the ban is enforced, provided certain criteria are met.

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      After the Supreme Court greenlit the law on Friday, the Biden administration issued a statement saying it would not enforce the ban, leaving that responsibility to Trump.

      Though some Senators contradict that.

      Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., also issued a statement celebrating the ban, and saying they don’t see a basis for an extension like Trump has proposed.

      "Now that the law has taken effect, there’s no legal basis for any kind of ‘extension’ of its effective date. […]

      So, we have to let the law play out. It doesn’t yet seem like we’re abandoning the rule of law at this point.

      • @[email protected]
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        What is TFA? EDIT: The Fucking Article, I assume.

        The law banning TikTok, which was scheduled to go into effect Sunday, allows the president to grant a 90-day extension before the ban is enforced, provided certain criteria are met.

        First I’ve ever heard of this. I wish the article explained what the criteria were.

    • JaggedRobotPubes
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      813 hours ago

      Dictatorships don’t usually end well for the dictators.

      At least that’s what history books seem to think.

      • @njm1314
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        1313 hours ago

        Yeah that’s not true at all. They don’t always end well for the next dictator. But a lot of dictators are just fine.