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Re:United States to Ban TikTok as Soon as Saturday by justix12 on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:11PM (#24017050)
is that even legal?
Re:United States to Ban TikTok as Soon as Saturday by nexuist on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:24PM (#24017144)
Yes, 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.

Re:United States to Ban TikTok as Soon as Saturday by foobarbazetc on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:11PM (#24017054)
Probably not.

But... uh...