TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users

Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users by latency-guy2 on Sunday January 19, 2025 @06:13PM (#42763119)

TikTok operated in a way that did not need to happen. Biden's administration was explicit in that the enforcement of the ban were to be performed by the Trump administration. Trump signaled that he would sign an EO allowing a 90 day extension to the ban terms on Monday. TikTok are now operating based on this information.

Who is currently in charge of the oval office is an irrelevant quality.

Note that the ban was not really on TikTok, but the ownership. TikTok could be owned by many other parties in the world. It just can't be ByteDance or parent/subsidiary which has ties to China.

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Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users by root_axis on Monday January 20, 2025 @01:08AM (#42765473)

> Trump signaled that he would sign an EO allowing a 90 day extension to the ban terms on Monday

How does that work? If congress passed a law banning TikTok how can the president just override it for 3 months? What's to stop him from overriding it for the next 4 years?

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Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users by latency-guy2 on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:08PM (#42776043)

It's outlined in the bill and is explicitly stated.

I've lost interest in this topic unfortunately, but its pretty clear even past all the legalese with the terms defined from what I remember.

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Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users by root_axis on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @05:42PM (#42786051)

I read the bill and didn't see it stated anywhere. I'd genuinely appreciate a link or even a copy/paste with the relevant section that I could look up on google.

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