Commerce Department Announces Stay of TikTok Shutdown Order (wsj.com) 21
The Commerce Department said Thursday that it won't enforce its order that would have effectively forced the Chinese-owned TikTok video-sharing app to shut down, citing a federal court ruling in Philadelphia. From a report: The department's action delays implementation of a regulation, set to take effect Thursday, that would have barred U.S. companies such as Apple from offering TikTok as a mobile app, and companies including Amazon.com and Alphabet from offering web-hosting service for TikTok -- moves that would effectively make it inoperable. In making its decision, the Commerce Department cited a preliminary injunction against the shutdown last month by U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone in Philadelphia in a suit brought by three TikTok stars: comedian Douglas Marland, fashion guru Cosette Rinab and musician Alex Chambers. The Commerce Department statement said that the shutdown order won't go into effect "pending further legal developments." In the Philadelphia case, Judge Beetlestone said the government action "presents a threat to the 'robust exchange of informational materials'" and therefore likely exceeds the government's authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the law the Trump administration has relied on to take action against TikTok. Two other court cases are pending. TikTok has filed its own request for an injunction for the shutdown in a case before U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington.
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> good-looking, privileged dancing
Well, I guess one out of three is the best we can expect these days.
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Even if Trump Admin went ahead with ban, wouldn't the Biden Admin reverse it next year?
No point in moving forward with it.
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It would take time to wind down the company, i.e., sell the Chinese stake to some guppie in the U.S., just before it crashed and burned because the teenies would take it out on the new entity. By the time the alleged president could get his revenge on the teenies and deprive Xinping of valuable windows on their adolescent angst, Biden would have a chance to change the rules. At this point, it probably isn't a burning item on his agenda. He's more concerned with stopping the appalling damage to the country,
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That assumes a decision made based on practical logic.
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It's a bit late if the business is sold to a US company in a fire sale at a low price. How does a later administration unwind that?
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It's a bit late if the business is sold to a US company in a fire sale at a low price
But the company in question isn't sold. [arstechnica.com] Now in the hypothetical sense, yeah, unless there was some exit clause to the sell, but in the instance of who we're talking about, the question isn't exactly applicable.
Orange man mad (Score:1)
[Cue The Who, except the lameness filter absoloutely will not let me put it in the "yeah" because it "looks like ASCII art"]
Bonus: How's this lameness filter?
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Why was it a threat in Oct, but not Nov? (Score:2)
This issue is going to be an annoyance for Biden, there are valid reasons for the ban (I said valid, not fair/non hypocritical).
No one has ever indicated a valid reason to ban TikTok from all customers. So the Chinese government has your location data while you make stupid dance vidoes and participate in braindead challenges? I don't get why we must shut this down.
I definitely support the armed services banning it or banning it from the phones of government employees. However, no one has given anything resembling proof Bejing cares about the data...nor a reasonable use case why it is a threat to a civilian like me.
All I ev
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I could swear I saw somebody say "valid" reason.
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or he could pursue it, risking harm to the relationship with china and risking failure
Or he could "pursue it" where it looks like he is giving a damn but ultimately doesn't. I mean the issue is very likely very low, low, low, low priority at the moment on the list. There's a ton of political justification for just seeing where it goes, but not actively do anything to prolong the eventual wind down. With the literally mess that's in DC and within the US borders itself. Biden's got plenty of excuses to just put the rest of the world on auto-pilot for the time being.
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One month into the Biden administration, do you think anyone will remember Tik Tok or whether Biden's stance on it will make him appear weak?
A bigger problem is that the alleged administration has been buying off U.S. farmers with subsidies that essentially fund the China trade war. The alleged administration handed China a revolver and then begged China not to shoot. What happens to those subsidies? The entire budget is under dire threat due to the Covid slowdown and the national debt is ballooning. SS and
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Alleged - You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Like it or not, the last 4 years didn't happen with an alleged administration; they in fact, happened with an actual administration. Not the best option for one, but it was one.
I want them to announce it via TikTok (Score:2)
I want them to announce this via TikTok. I want to see a bunch of bureaucrats dancing while making an administrative announcement.
Cane we sue FB, Twitter, CNN, etc on same grounds? (Score:2)
There is an intolerable double-standard in the media. It cannot be allowed to continue.