The Unbearable Lightness of TikTok has been an annoying ongoing saga. I’d prefer a hard yes or no to a waffling will they/won’t they prospect of an incoming ban, but I’m ultimately not the one who calls the shots — I just report them. We are currently two DOJ directives to not ban the app deep. Will Trump pivot toward a crackdown or push toward a third extension? Market Watch has coverage:
President Donald Trump threw a lifeline to TikTok in January, and he did it again in April. Now, a repeat performance is widely expected by Thursday, when his latest extension is due to run out.
Trump keeps ordering the Justice Department not to enforce a bipartisan law that was intended to ban TikTok nationwide as of Jan. 19 as long as the video-sharing platform remains controlled by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance Ltd.
Enough of the threatening to take your ball home because the score isn’t going your team’s way! If Trump decides against extending the TikTok deadline, it will probably be because of how bad his little no-show birthday parade is getting flamed:
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This is par for the course when you determine the legality of a thing not based on the law or the Constitution, but the ego of the lead dude in charge. It is hard to oversell the importance of TikTok as an American soft power platform — and given that the majority of the content is decidedly against American state doxa, I’d assume that access to the app is teetering toward the liability side of the equation.
Keep in mind that the original justification for the ban from January, national security concerns, loses steam as each day compounds without clear proof of some dastardly information breach. We have until Thursday to see what happens. In the meantime, hop on the newest Keith Lee dance trend to get as many followers as you can before the state stamps out a major speech platform:
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Trump Is Set To Delay The TikTok Ban Again. Could He Face A Lawsuit? [Market Watch]
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