Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by ModernMech on Monday January 20, 2025 @04:14PM
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But the court isn't going into a server room somewhere and pressing a button to take TikTok off the app store. Apple would take it down because they would incur some sort of retaliation if they didn't. But that retaliation would never come because Trump controls the enforcers, and he has directed them to ignore noncompliance with the law. So how would the court compel this behavior from Apple?
Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @05:18AM
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> that retaliation would never come because Trump controls the enforcers
Federally, only today. And federally, the judiciary has its own enforcement powers. (To say nothing of private liability caused by wilful lawbreaking, even if encouraged by the President.)
It’s why Apple and Google, informed by the most-expensive lawyers in the world, have for now de-listed TikTok.
Courts can compel the app stores to de-list. The President doesn’t need to personally enforce every law in the land.