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Trump Bans TikTok September 20
- Firebrand 6y agoWas this necessary? If it was really a national security threat he would have made the ban effective much sooner. Now it just looks like it’s part of a shakedown to give Microsoft or some other interested party more leverage.
- foobarbazetc 6y agoHow is some video hosting app used by teens a national security threat in any way? Of course it’s a shakedown.
- aaronbrethorst 6y agoTrump said as much a few days ago. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-04/trump-on-tiktok-sale-payment-do-we-really-have-to-talk-about-it https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-04/trump-...
- jonathankoren 6y agoThis is some passage in article. “The legal powers behind the executive order is unclear. [... Typically sanctions] are put in place by the Commerce Department, rather than the White House, and subject to a rule-making procedure that seems to have been short circuited by the surprise executives order.”
- jonluca 6y agoThis feels like a fairly scary precedent. It also sounds fairly non specific - what counts as a "transaction"?