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Tiktok back on online in the USA; Users express suspicions
According to the law, Trump cannot unilaterally provide a 90-day extension, unless Byedance guarantees him that he’s selling the application to an American company.
On January 18, Tiktok was ahead of the federal ban on the application set, which can appear the next day, which is a movement that the press secretary of the White House Karine Jean-Pierre In her comments she was called “a feat”. Until January 19, the application was again available to American users. Based on the statements of Bytedance, a Chinese company that owns the application, expects Trump to be his savior and thanked him for his help.
According to, President Elek Donald Trump has committed himself On his social platform, he “issued an executive ordinance on Monday to extend the period before the ban on the law enters into force so that we could conclude a contract for the protection of our national security.”
Trump also said that his ordinance “confirms that there would be no responsibility for any company that helped stop Tiktok from confusion before my order.”
Trump’s promise is directly contrary to federal law adopted by bilateral efforts and a conservative decision of the Supreme Court. The law states that the stores with applications and cloud processing suppliers can have to be sentenced to financial penalty in the event that they don’t apply.
As Rep. Jasmine Crockett in social media, the proposed order of Trump may potentially be his first test, how far the rule of law can bend until he breaks.
Rep. Crockett also noticed in their answers to voters that she thinks that somebody would should sue to repeal an executive order, because the Department of Justice is not going to intervene.
In the statement informing about the return of the social application, Tiktok thanked Trump, while some users noticed that Trump is basically liable for this problem.
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“We thank President Trump for ensuring the necessary clarity and certainty of our service providers that they will not have any penalties providing a thicket for over 170 million Americans and enabling the development of over 7 million small companies,” said Tiktok.
Despite the ceremony of the creators of Tiktok, Tiktok users and the company itself, legal experts warn that the devil is in detail, in this case the details of the promised order of Trump.
Alan Rzensenshtein, a professor of law at the University of Minnesota, says: “There is no good path here from a law perspective.”
Former Biden administration official, Peter Harrell, said that the executive ordinance proposed by Trump doesn’t seem to face up to legal control.
“What Trump proposed on social media seems unlawful. We will have to see what he actually does to implement it, “Harrell said.
Just before Trump’s post promising executive order regarding social truth, speaker Mike Johnson said He believed that President Elekt He actually wants to barter a contract in order that Tiktok becomes the property of an American company.
“When President Trump issued the truth [Social] Publish and said: “Save the Tiktok”, the way we read, is that he will try to force himself to sell, change hands, ownership, “said Johnson.
According to the law, Trump cannot unilaterally grant a 90-day extension, unless Byedance guarantees that it sells the application to an American company.
“The law is very precise, and the only way to extend is whether there is a actual contract in work,” noted Marshal Johnson. “I think that President Trump is probably intrigued by all this and likes to make offers, as you know. So we hope that it can happen, and that 270 million American people who like the platform can enjoy it, but enjoy it safely and has no data by the enemy of our nation. “