Posted on 01/18/2025 12:50:21 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he “most likely” would give TikTok 90 more days to work out a deal that would allow the popular video-sharing platform to avoid a U.S. ban.
Trump said in an NBC News interview that he had not decided what to do but was considering granting TikTok a reprieve after he is sworn into office on Monday. A law that prohibits mobile app stores and internet hosting services from distributing TikTok to U.S. users takes effect on Sunday.
Under the law passed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden last year, TikTok’s China-based parent company had nine months to sell the platform’s U.S. operation to an approved buyer. The law allows the sitting president to grant an extension if a sale is in progress.
“I think that would be, certainly, an option that we look at. The 90-day extension is something that will be most likely done, because it’s appropriate. You know, it’s appropriate,” Trump told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker in a phone interview. “We have to look at it carefully. It’s a very big situation.
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Why give PRC 90 more days to collect more data on Americans?
Temu is more dangerous than TikTok. Temu has our credit card numbers.
What does it mean “a sale is in progress”? It seems to me that this is amorphous and that the President can choose to interpret it liberally.
Good! The way this is written allows further intrusion by the federal government into many other areas of our free speech.
Good Lord, hasnt he had enough of that phony Welker
How can Trump override congressional legislation?
The SCOTUS stated 9-0 that this was NOT a free Speech issue.
FWIW
So do you trust the Supreme Court. The same one where John Roberts is the Chief Justice?
Sometimes they make good decisions that follow the Constitution.
But way too often their judgment is crap.
9-0 ruling ain’t beanbag.
Since most of Walmart's merchandise comes from COSCO and Walmart's self-service kiosks take your photo (face recognition anyone?) and collates it with your credit card information, it is arguable that Walmart is collecting data for the PRC.
Shouldn't Walmart be banned?
You worry a out the hostile evil CCP right to spy and data gather on US citizen .
interesting.
How many CCP trolls are here now ?
They had plenty of time to sell, plenty of time to find a buyer. Instead, they said they'd rather shut down their U.S. operations than sell.
don’t ban Costco because I love their cheap hot dogs
Did you really make that ridiculous comparison .
The CCP can't do much to me. On the other hand, the FBI...
Why should they sell?
They'll shut down TikTok in the U.S. and focus on doing business with the rest of the world.
Anyway, the problem is not with TikTok itself but rather on how the bill was written.
Good logical point
Can you read?
you are a nasty smug troll here .
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