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U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok and that he would like to see a bidding war over the app.

As he promised Sunday, President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive action that delays enforcement of the TikTok ban for 75 days. The action directs the US Justice Department not to enforce the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which passed with broad bipartisan support in Congress and was signed in April by former President Joe Biden. The law required that starting January 19, TikTok be banned in the United States unless it sells to a buyer from America or one of its allies. The law gives the president broad discretion on how to enforce the ban. Trump’s promise in...

"The right to free speech doesn't come with exceptions not for Apps and not for ideas" "Freedom isn't given. Its taken"

The clock is ticking on whether or not the Chinese government-connected social media platform TikTok will "go dark" in the U.S. over the weekend, after the Supreme Court ruled Friday to uphold the law banning the site starting Jan. 19. The high court announced it would take up the case as an emergency review, with TikTok arguing a ban would violate the First Amendment to the Constitution. On Friday, TikTok warned in a statement that it would pull the plug Sunday, unless officials in the Biden administration step in and make a "definitive statement" reassuring the company it would not...

The disappearance of TikTok threatens to erase billions of dollars from the U.S. economy and remove an important platform used by millions of American businesses and social-media entrepreneurs to connect with customers. TikTok’s demise won’t dent the U.S. economy overall, but it is poised to crimp a sizable sub-economy that has sprung up around the hugely popular app used by roughly 170 million Americans. Putting a precise figure on TikTok’s impact across the U.S. economy is difficult, though the company has touted a figure of more than $20 billion a year. Ella Livingston has a pretty clear idea of how...

Dismayed by the amount of support the TikTok Ban is getting and a Unanimous decision by the men and women in black robes further alarms me and will just embolden the Feds and Congress to engage in more online censorship. How come some (most?) Freepers don't see this? Are you still watching the networks and believing the foreign entity stuff? You understand that the legislation is broader than that?

John Solomon @jsolomonReports Breaking: TikTok says it will close Sunday in U.S. if Biden does not intervene From justthenews.com 9:39 PM · Jan 17, 2025

President-elect Donald Trump is considering issuing an executive order once in office that would suspend enforcement of the TikTok ban-or-sale law for 60 to 90 days, hoping a brief reprieve for the Chinese-owned app will net him an early victory.Trump has been mulling ways to save the day for the wildly popular video app, talking through unconventional dealmaking and legal maneuvers; these include the executive order that could unravel the Biden administration’s nationwide ban of the app now scheduled for Sunday, according to two people familiar with the deliberations, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private talks.Trump...

The Supreme Court could rule on TikTok’s fate as soon as Wednesday, after justices signaled during oral arguments Friday they may uphold the federal law banning TikTok unless it divests itself from ByteDance, expressing skepticism of TikTok’s opposition to the policy. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Friday over whether the federal law—which requires TikTok to separate from parent company ByteDance or else be banned—is in violation of the First Amendment. While it’s unclear when the court will rule in the case, the court has announced it will release opinions in pending cases on Wednesday, which could include a ruling...

The Chinese government is considering a plan that would have Elon Musk acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations to keep the app from being effectively banned, Bloomberg News reported on Monday. The contingency plan is one of several options China is exploring as the U.S. Supreme Court determines whether to uphold a law that calls for China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. business by Jan. 19, the report said, citing anonymous sources. After that deadline, third-party Internet service providers would be penalized for supporting TikTok’s operations in the country. Under the plan, Musk would oversee both X, which he currently owns, and...