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...according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

The NYT is back to the anonymous sources already.

The TikTok ban will be perverted to be uses as a precedent for banning conservative sites, just like the Patriot Act was perverted to use against conservative "domestic terrorists."

1 posted on 01/17/2025 10:20:21 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

well, it would put the dems in the sticky situation of having to challenge it legally (which, of course they will feel compelled to do out of pure reflex because orange man bad) and get every millennial and Genz person hating them. So there’s that.


2 posted on 01/17/2025 10:24:11 AM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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I hate TikTok and want it banned, unless it is sold and drastically changes its policies!

No blanket ban on other sites!


3 posted on 01/17/2025 10:25:21 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It is the NYTs. Not a reliable source about anything to do with President Trump.


5 posted on 01/17/2025 10:32:52 AM PST by marktwain
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is crap if Trump does this. Regardless of whether he agrees with the law, it is a valid law passed by Congress and it is his job as President to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed. That constitutional requirement is not limited to the laws with which he agrees.


7 posted on 01/17/2025 10:54:29 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( )
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I strongly support donald Trump’s position on TikTok.

Whatever that may be.

Originally he was for banning it. Now he’s not.


8 posted on 01/17/2025 10:57:43 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Man made Climate Change is Real. Cal. Officials responsible for the fires just proved it.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wasn’t it Trump who started this mess?


9 posted on 01/17/2025 11:14:50 AM PST by joesbucks
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Republicans will be blamed and annihilated if the TikTok ban takes effect. A huge portion of Americans want it and many of them vote. This isn’t complicated.


10 posted on 01/17/2025 12:17:06 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Didn’t the scrotum say CAN ban PRCtok?


11 posted on 01/17/2025 1:40:35 PM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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The TikTok ban will be perverted to be uses as a precedent for banning conservative sites.

Exactly. That's why we should not agree to the government passing the bill in the first place.

But now it's the law of the land. Eventually, the government is going to have to realize it's a bad law.

Now TikTokers are downloading RedNote, an app that's owned by a Chinese Company.

So the next move is for the government is to ban RedNote.

The Congress is going to have to realize that it is going to make them look draconian.

So they may be under pressure to repeal the law.

13 posted on 01/17/2025 1:44:43 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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