But we're not talking strictly about non-commercial transactions. Prohibiting US advertisers from doing business with TikTok removes a lot of incentive for TikT

But we're not talking strictly about non-commercial transactions. Prohibiting US advertisers from doing business with TikTok removes a lot of incentive for TikTok to operate in the US. > US advertisers can be banned from doing business with tiktok but it is a free app. In addition, App Store providers can be banned from allowing ByteDance to submit it. > They can ban book sales or a book reading service but storage, avaipability and free transfer of information cannot be banned. The free transfer of software information is already "banned" through copyright law. Software piracy is technically simply the capital-free transfer of bits of data, and that can and is controlled by the US government. > They can't ban someone from mailing you the communist manifesto for free as a book or handwritten letter, so they can't ban a communist manifesto app download or punish anyone for facilitating that transfer. The argument is not whether they can ban someone from mailing you a copy of the communist manifest, it's whether they can ban an American retailer from receiving copies of it from a sanctioned supplier. That's what the executive order appears to be targeting.