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United States to Ban TikTok as Soon as Saturday
- foobarbazetc 6y agoUnder what statue or authority?
- busymom0 6y agoCNBC also says Microsoft is trying to buy them out so if that happens, then this might change? https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/trump-says-he-will-ban-tiktok-through-executive-action-as-soon-as-saturday.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/trump-says-he-will-ban-tikto...
- foobarbazetc 6y agoHe said he didn’t care if MS bought them or not. Which kind of undercuts the BS national security angle but... these things aren’t meant to make actual sense.
- ta17711771 6y ago> Which kind of undercuts the BS national security angle Disagree.
- justix12 6y agois that even legal?
- foobarbazetc 6y agoProbably not. But... uh...
- nexuist 6y agoYes, to a degree, although the laws in the books have never been used against a single company like this before. We have laws preventing all American companies from cooperating with Iranian ones, such that I as an independent Mac app developer cannot sell my app in Iran (no one can). We have similar laws regarding even the transport of encryption algorithms. The real legal question is whether Trump can do this via an EO, or whether he'll need Congress to do another China bill.
- simonblack 6y agoway to go! China loses a 350 million market. The US loses a 1400 million market. I wonder who ends up better off.