President Trump disagrees with you.
Posted on 12/02/2024 1:20:29 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
A federal court is expected to rule this week whether to uphold the federal ban on TikTok, as both sides have asked for a ruling by Friday before the law is scheduled to take effect in January—though Donald Trump’s election has further complicated the ban’s fate.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is now deliberating on TikTok’s lawsuit against the federal government, which seeks to strike down the law forcing TikTok to divest from Chinese parent company ByteDance or else be banned from U.S. app stores.
TikTok argues the ban infringes on the company’s First Amendment rights, and the case has been combined with a separate lawsuit brought by TikTok creators.
The company argues the law’s requirement that it divest from ByteDance is “not possible technologically, commercially, or legally,” particularly within the “arbitrary” timeline, and TikTok alleged that if it did divest, the company would be “reduced to a shell of its former self.”
The Justice Department has maintained that banning TikTok is necessary due to ByteDance’s Chinese ownership, claiming that keeping access to the app “creates a national-security threat of immense depth and scale,” though the specific evidence for why it poses a threat is all redacted in court filings.
Both sides have asked the court to rule by Friday so there will be time to pursue any next steps or appeals before the ban is slated to take effect on January 19.
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If it’s banned You Tube shorts could easily replace Tik Tok. It seems to be almost the same thing.
Doesn’t the law allow the President to suspend the ban at will?
Isn’t a greater threat the 25,000 or so military aged Chinese men let in the country through Biden’s border fiasco?
One of the major factors Trump won this time is because he was able to get his message out through alternative media, mostly through X and TikTok.
Zuck banned Trump on Meta platforms, remember?
dissipates = dissidents
Foreign companies have no 1st amendment rights.
A general divestment of China would be a good thing, but there are too many congressmen on the take for that to happen.
Except it is not just about “TikTok”. In their normal broad overreach it is anything the President decides to control. Some day that might even be the FR if they want to twist words and intentions out of context.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521/text
President Trump disagrees with you.
I don’t go to this site, but I’ve seen some pretty funny videos from there.
While the Red Chinese own TikTok, we are far more in danger from our domestic enemies in the tech industry, their allies in the Federal police agencies and the Democratic Party than from China, Russia, and Iran. They are hostile powers to be sure but the immediate threat to our country is the domestic communists in positions of political, financial, and social power. Deal with Bill Gates, Soros father and son, Barack Obama, the Clintons, Mark Zuckerberg, etc., then Xi, Putin, and the Iranian mullahs.
We’re probably doing the same to the Chinese but it’s in the shadows. This is cyberwarfare at its best.
Ban....no
Divestiture.........probably
Dear Google, Facebook, X, Amazon, Ebay, Paypal, etc.:
Guess what we want!
Xi
Two can play the divestiture game, or none.
youtube is run by nazis and needs to be put out of business. it appears rumble is the only free speech game in town
Trump is on tik tok. I’m not certain he supports the ban or not.
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