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My understanding is that the law doesn’t ban TikTok. The law gives the president the power to ban TikTok. So the president can elect not to use said power.
by jbombadil 2y ago
My understanding is that the law doesn’t ban TikTok. The law gives the president the power to ban TikTok.
So the president can elect not to use said power.
- yobid20 2y agoThe law quite clearly states bytedance aka tiktok so yea tiktok is 100% banned and the penalty is massive fines that would essentially bankrupt them.
- sethammons 2y agoThe law quite clearly says it is the president's call. It is a new presidential power. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521/text#H9CE7920E18BA4AE4AB50852D1350AC0F https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521...
- mwigdahl 2y agoIt is the President’s call for any _additional_ applications. It is not his call for TikTok or any other ByteDance applications.
- benmmurphy 2y agoif the law explicitly says bytedance and there is no way for bytedance to avoid it then its a bill of attainder and unconstitutional. presumably, they have worded the law in a way that avoids this for example by letting the president remove bytedance for being in violation if he considers them no longer in violation.