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.
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).