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Pray tell what a real attempt looks like to you?

• duxup 5y ago
  Legislation, a department taking action within their legal powers. In the US it really does matter how you do things. Just the whim of the president is not enough for it to happen. Trump had no legal basis for his order. He liked to act like he was doing things with grand strokes, many of them were doomed to fail. I'm not convinced that he or those around him even cared if they did or not. I don't think you can read much into an amateur hour / foolish attempt.
  • twofornone 5y ago
    Are you sure that the head of the executive branch does not have authority to ban federal employees from using an app which potentially poses a national security threat? I don't think its so clear cut. In any case its hardly the first time that a president made a potentially unconditional to be ruled upon by courts later.
    • duxup 5y ago
      >have authority to ban federal employees from using an app Not sure what we're talking about at this point. Trump's executive orders about tiktok that were thrown out of court were something different. Trump or just the department who owns a given device can of course say "don't put X on government phones" and so on, but that's way different than what Trump tried and failed to do with tiktok.