Summary
House Speaker Mike Johnson stated Sunday that the U.S. will enforce the TikTok ban unless ByteDance sells the app to a U.S.-based owner, countering Trump’s suggestion of a 90-day extension.
Johnson emphasized TikTok’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party and its harmful influence on American users. GOP Senators Tom Cotton and Pete Ricketts also opposed an extension.
The law does not allow the president to grant an extension without guarantees that ByteDance is actively pursuing a sale.
Johnson added there is no evidence of progress toward such progress.
What happened with Biden’s promise to not enforce it? Is that not something the POTUS can do or is this just the legislative branch posturing?
Today is the last day of Biden’s presidency so he is completely irrelevant to what happens now.
But doesn’t that make it more apparent that bytedance is in on the ruse? Shut the app down while Biden is still president even though his administration says they do not plan to enforce the ban and then bring it back the second Trump is president? (They already brought it back with a notice that thanks President Trump)
It’s not about Biden, it’s about the executive branch. And the incoming dumbass has already said he’s gonna save it, so it is relevant.
It would probably be up to the DoJ to sue any app store that didn’t remove it, so yeah it’s posturing.
Regardless, as I mentioned, the ban was to remove it from the app stores, not actually shut off functionality. Tiktok’s messaging this weekend was a stunt.
For anyone who wonders what the stunt was about, just look at this fuckin shit
Holy shit, no way in hell that was the actual message displayed. Its a joke right?
100% not a joke
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tiktok-restoring-service/story?id=117857636
Oh fuck distopian timeline is moving forward pretty fast. So glad I dont live in the US and wont have to make the choice of living as a slave or dying for people that dont want to be freed.
It’s not just to take it out of stores, the law states providing internet hosting services… Which would complicate it functioning here.
Sec. 2) This division prohibits distributing, maintaining, updating, or providing internet hosting services for a foreign adversary controlled application (e.g., TikTok).