Re:TikTok goes dark in the US
by jbombadil on Sunday January 19, 2025 @03:33AM
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My understanding is that the law doesn’t ban TikTok. The law gives the president the power to ban TikTok.
So the president can elect not to use said power.
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The law quite clearly states bytedance aka tiktok so yea tiktok is 100% banned and the penalty is massive fines that would essentially bankrupt them.
Re:TikTok goes dark in the US
by sethammons on Sunday January 19, 2025 @04:47AM
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The law quite clearly says it is the president's call. It is a new presidential power.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521...
It is the President’s call for any _additional_ applications. It is not his call for TikTok or any other ByteDance applications.
Re:TikTok goes dark in the US
by benmmurphy on Sunday January 19, 2025 @05:12AM
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if the law explicitly says bytedance and there is no way for bytedance to avoid it then its a bill of attainder and unconstitutional. presumably, they have worded the law in a way that avoids this for example by letting the president remove bytedance for being in violation if he considers them no longer in violation.