What Does Trump's Executive Order Mean For TikTok?
What Does Trump’s Executive Order Mean For The Future Of TikTok?
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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order granting TikTok a 75-day extension to comply with a law banning the app if it is not sold. The social media platform briefly went dark in the US days before Trump took office after the Supreme Court upheld the ban.
TikTok came back online about 14 hours later with a short message thanking Trump for his “efforts.”
An executive order is an instruction from the president, but Trump’s order does not overturn the ban. Instead, it tells the US attorney general not to enforce the law for now and buys time for his administration to, as the order puts it, “determine the appropriate course of action.” This is something that many experts expected.
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Trump has floated the possibility of TikTok becoming a joint venture, telling reporters he was seeking a 50-50 partnership between “the United States” and ByteDance. Though, he did not provide more details about how it work,
For now, though the order creates a situation where the president is directly opposing a ruling made by the Supreme Court, which upheld the law to ban TikTok on 17 January. It said the ban was “designed to prevent China – a designated foreign adversary – from leveraging its control over ByteDance to capture the personal data of US TikTok users”.
According to reports from BBC, even after the 75 days have passed, it would be possible for Trump to allow the law to stand but tell the Department of Justice to continue to ignore it.
The government would be effectively telling Apple and Google they will not be punished for continuing to allow people to download TikTok onto their devices, meaning the law would remain in place but would essentially be redundant.
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It is not clear whether the firms would continue to offer the app under these circumstances.
As for now, Trump said “very rich person has called me” to signal their interest in TikTok when he signed the order but ByteDance said that its prize asset was not for sale.
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