Tik Tok

[Loki]

The unwinding has begun.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tiktok-users-focus/tiktoks-u-s-users-prepare-for-life-without-the-video-app-idUSKCN24F13A

[Axtremus]

Trump says he's banning TikTok in the U.S. by executive order
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-may-force-tiktok-sell-its-u-s-operations-n1235525
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“As far as TikTok is concerned we’re banning them from the United States,” Trump said aboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington after a fundraising trip to Florida.

Trump described the action as "severance" and said he could sign an order as soon as Saturday. “Well, I have that authority," he said.
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[Catseye3]

@Axtremus said in Tik Tok:

“Well, I have that authority," he said.

Actually, he doesn't. Executive orders have been abused for years. But be that as it may.

I'm wondering what else he would ban if he could. If Donald Trump on a censoring rampage doesn't rattle your slats, nothing will.

Thank god he's semi-literate.

[Loki]

It’s just getting sold to a US company. A little help in moving the process along quickly.

[89th]

Whether he’s right or wrong, I have a feeling a Trump thinks Executive Orders are his only way to run things the way he would in a private company where the owner has full power.

[Klaus]

It may be a good idea to ban TikTok since it is essentially Spyware, but I have the feeling that Trump has some other motive.

[George K]

@Klaus said in Tik Tok:

It may be a good idea to ban TikTok since it is essentially Spyware, but I have the feeling that Trump has some other motive.

HL Mencken's quote comes to mind.

[89th]

@Klaus said in Tik Tok:

It may be a good idea to ban TikTok since it is essentially Spyware, but I have the feeling that Trump has some other motive.

Agreed. He either has intelligence reports of TikTok’s spyware danger or he’s still pissed folks on TikTok conspired to buy all his Tulsa rally tickets and not show, so it would look bad. I think it’s both.

[Rich]

@89th Which ironically enough may have saved some of his supporters lives.

Interesting times.

[Loki]

@Klaus said in Tik Tok:

It may be a good idea to ban TikTok since it is essentially Spyware, but I have the feeling that Trump has some other motive.

I repeat Tim Tok is being sold to a US company. Trump’s comment is essentially meaningless.

[George K]

@Loki said in Tik Tok:

I repeat Tim Tok is being sold to a US company. Trump’s comment is essentially meaningless.

Microsoft has, apparently, backed out.

And the fact that it's being pitched to a "US" company, does that put anyone's mind at ease?

[89th]

@Rich said in Tik Tok:

@89th Which ironically enough may have saved some of his supporters lives.

Interesting times.

Haha good point.

[jon-nyc]

@Rich said in Tik Tok:

@89th Which ironically enough may have saved some of his supporters lives.

Interesting times.

Pissing off Trump, getting his campaign manager demoted, and saving lives.

Oh the winning!

[Loki]

@Loki said in Tik Tok:

@Klaus said in Tik Tok:

It may be a good idea to ban TikTok since it is essentially Spyware, but I have the feeling that Trump has some other motive.

I repeat Tim Tok is being sold to a US company. Trump’s comment is essentially meaningless.

I repeat again...it’s in the sales process.

[Loki]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/03/microsoft-confirms-talks-to-buy-tiktok-in-us.html

[Jolly]

Nice company you have there. Shame we have to ban it.

Now, that's the art of a deal you can't refuse!

[taiwan_girl]

Interesting to see if they can get it done in 45 days.

I am sure that Byte Dance has a higher expectation of what they think Tiki's Tok is worth.

[Catseye3]

https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_ae0cf56403b2a18518874d5f971120ef

"After days of whiplash over the future of TikTok, President Donald Trump said he would allow an American company to acquire the short-form video app — with a catch.

"In an unusual declaration, Trump also said any deal would have to include a "substantial amount of money" coming to the US Treasury.

"The President's requirement that some of the money from the deal go to the US Treasury doesn't have a basis in antitrust law, according to Gene Kimmelman, a former chief counsel for the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division . . . 'This is quite unusual, this is out of the norm," Kimmelman said. "It's actually quite hard to understand what the president is actually talking about here.'"

Welcome to the world, Gene.

[Klaus]

@Catseye3 said in Tik Tok:

"In an unusual declaration, Trump also said any deal would have to include a "substantial amount of money" coming to the US Treasury

Lolwut?

[Doctor Phibes]

Conservative support for free enterprise at it's finest.