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When President Trump issued the Truth [Social] post and said, 'Save Tiktok,' the way we read that is that he’s going to try to force along a true divestiture, changing of hands, the ownership,
Johnson said Sunday
We commend Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft for following the law and halting operations with ByteDance and TikTok, and we encourage other companies to do the same. The law, after all, risks ruinous bankruptcy for any company who violates it,
Cotton and Ricketts wrote in a statementIt’s not the platform that members of Congress are concerned about. It’s the Chinese Communist Party and their manipulation of the algorithms — they have been flooding the minds of American children with terrible messages glorifying violence and anti-semitism and even suicide and eating disorders. I mean, crazy kinds of stuff, and they’re mining the data of American citizens. It’s a very dangerous thing,
he addedThe President may grant a one-time extension of not more than 90 days ... if the President certifies to Congress that— (A) a path to executing a qualified divestiture has been identified with respect to such application,
the law saysNow that the law has taken effect, there’s no legal basis for any kind of ‘extension’ of its effective date. For TikTok to come back online in the future, ByteDance must agree to a sale that satisfies the law’s qualified-divestiture requirements by severing all ties between TikTok and Communist China,
they addedI think we will enforce the law,
Johnson told NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday, a day after Trump told NBC NewsEven if China has not yet leveraged its relationship with ByteDance Ltd to access US TikTok users’ data, petitioners offer no basis for concluding that the Government’s determination that China might do so is not at least a ‘reasonable inferenc[e] based on substantial evidence.’
The justices wrote in their unanimous opinion
It genuinely feels like our parents just came in the middle of the school year and said, ‘Yeah, forget all your friends, forget all the hard work you did at this school, you’re going to have to start from scratch,
TikToker @inzlay said in a video of herself crying and bidding farewell to her TikTok following of 24,500
This bill prohibits distributing, maintaining, or providing internet hosting services for a foreign adversary controlled application (eg, TikTok).”
The text of the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, passed in April and signed by Joe Biden, readsBanning TikTok must be considered in Europe as well,
Margus Tsahkna said on X,
I love TikTok, it's like an escape... hopefully it comes back,
the world number three told reportersNothing is more American than banning TikTok before AR-15s,
posted X user David Leavitt, referring to an automatic weapon often used in US mass shootings.jpg)
I could not access it after my match,
Gauff said after winning her fourth-round matchI think that would be, certainly, an option that we look at. The 90-day extension is something that will be most likely done, because it's appropriate. You know, it's appropriate. We have to look at it carefully. It's a very big situation."
President-elect Donald Trump said on NBC News' Meet the Press on Saturday
I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok,
Trump said, then claiming to have won the youth vote by a significant margin
Apple is obligated to follow the laws in the jurisdictions where it operates,
the company said in its statementIf I decide to do that, I’ll probably announce it on Monday,
he saidA law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S.,
the message said
A country that claims to have the most freedom of speech has carried out the most brutal suppression of an internet application,
said Hu, who is now a political commentatorSorry, TikTok isn't available right now.”
When users opened the TikTok app on Saturday, they encountered a pop-up message that said