Trump tells Justice Department not to enforce TikTok ban for 75 days

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

Jan. 20, 2025, 8:23 PM EST


President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that gives TikTok a 75-day extension during which the United States will not enforce the law meant to force the app's owner to sell the company.

The law, which President Joe Biden signed in April, requires TikTok’s owner, the Chinese company ByteDance, to sell most of its stake for TikTok to continue to operate in the United States. It went into effect Sunday, but the Biden administration said it wouldn't enforce the law. Now, Trump is continuing that approach.

"I hereby order the Attorney General not to take any action on behalf of the United States to enforce the Act for 75 days from the date of this order, to permit my Administration an opportunity to determine the appropriate course of action with respect to TikTok," the White House said in the order. "During this period, the Department of Justice shall take no action to enforce the Act or impose any penalties against any entity for any noncompliance with the Act, including for distributing, maintaining, or updating (or enabling the distribution, maintenance, or updating) of any foreign adversary controlled application as defined in the Act."

The order temporarily halts the recent back-and-forth surrounding the app's accessibility. After the Supreme Court upheld the law behind the looming ban Friday, TikTok voluntarily made itself unavailable to U.S. customers Saturday evening. On Sunday, after Trump said he preferred the app to stay operable to help broadcast his inauguration, TikTok resumed service, greeting American users with a message that thanked him. TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-tells-justice-department-not-enforce-tiktok-ban-75-days-rcna188377

[tulipsandroses]

1. Am I correct that state prosecutors could file suit even if the feds don't? Though, I am not sure that this is the hill

for state prosecutors to die on.

[truthisfreedom]

2. Why do I get the sinking feeling

That this administration is secretly allowing other foreign-owned apps to do malicious mischief during this period?

[BumRushDaShow]

3. It wouldn't surprise me

if they try to cut a financial deal with the oft-spouted-by-the-GOP-like-a-broken-record - "Chinese Communist Party" - in order to scrape some info being collected by them.

[C Moon]

4. I think trump was the one who started the TT ban in 2020.

I use TT and the whole shut down thing hailing trump and then coming back up and hailing him again (even though he wasn’t even President yet), reeked of something rotten. I don’t know what is going on, but we’re seeing people who refused to back him, suddenly praising him as the greatest thing since the Big Mac.

It’s all very creepy.

[LeftInTX]

7. Google "Inauguration" and see what happens. It needs to be google.

[C Moon]

8. Maybe I googled "Inauguration" a little late, but I didn't see anything that would raise an eyebrow.

[LeftInTX]

9. Animated fireworks

[C Moon]

10. Oh. I didn't get that. I'll try it on my iPhone.

I tried it on my Mac desktop.

Either way. That’s fucking disgusting. He’s not even that popular but the media is pretending he’s the most loved human alive.

[LeftInTX]

11. It ended at midnight.

They're treating him like he's a god. It's so weird. Apparently Trump has alot of a power and a strong mandate to do whatever he wants. However, why should they adulate him?

[angrychair]

5. That isn't a thing

The law allows a president to ask for a one time 90 day extension under very specific circumstances and none other. This is in violation of the law and impeachment should start immediately.

[Hope22]

6. But, but, but I thought the President couldn't tell the DOJ what to do!!!

Too fast, he’s giving me whiplash!

[Shrek]

12. Article II violation on the first day

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.

Direct contravention of the oath he just took.