US bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores, threatens shutdowns

Re:US bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores, threatens shutdowns by jmoss20 on Friday September 18, 2020 @02:40PM (#24520406)

> The president also theoretically has the power to just unilaterally start a war...

"The Congress shall have Power . . . To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules conquering Captures on Land and Water;" -- US Constitution, Article I, 8.11

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Re:US bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores, threatens shutdowns by samatman on Friday September 18, 2020 @02:52PM (#24520546)

Please don't be naive.

The workaround, for at least fifty years, has simply been for the President to start a war without going through the formality of declaring one.

Congress could probably put a stop to it after the fact. We don't know this for sure, because thus far they just rubber-stamp it. Military-industrial money flows into everyone's district, by design.

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Re:US bans WeChat, TikTok from app stores, threatens shutdowns by detaro on Friday September 18, 2020 @02:46PM (#24520479)

Maybe the argument is that you don't need to declare a war to start one?

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