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I don't think TikTok is going to be banned,
then-North Carolina Congressman Jeff Jackson said after voting for the ban last March (ironically speaking in a TikTok video).
TikTok’s owners had plenty of time to find a buyer. And there were plenty of willing buyers as well,
Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas said after blocking Democrat Senator Ed Markey’s attempt
Our interpretation of the law that Congress passed is that absent a credible plan from the company on how they will divest, the President does not have statutory authority to trigger the 90 day extension,
a senior White House official told Politico
In no way should we have TikTok go dark Sunday,
Markey said, ... according to a reportTikTok should survive but under new ownership,
Schumer addedThere absolutely is this surveillance component to social media apps and to internet use. It’s not just the censorship,
Chu told Al Jazeera
The ban or forced sale of one social media app will do virtually nothing to protect Americans’ data privacy from another country,
he addedBecause of Congress’s failure to enact comprehensive consumer privacy legislation, corporations from around the world are free to harvest Americans’ data, store it forever, and then monetise it through ever-expanding uses and sales,
Greene told Al JazeeraPresident-elect Trump asked the Supreme Court to slow down the process to give him time to find another solution,
Chander told Al JazeeraIt’s clear that more time is needed to find an American buyer and not disrupt the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans, of so many influencers who have built up a good network of followers,
Schumer said Thursday on the Senate floor
TikTok is a Chinese Communist spy app that addicts our kids, harvests their data, targets them with harmful and manipulative content, and spreads communist propaganda,
Cotton saidBut number two, he's going to protect their data,
he added
TikTok will still be banned, and it will still be illegal for Apple and Google to do business with them. But it will make the president’s intention not to enforce the law that much more official.”
He added
Executive orders are not magical documents. They're just press releases with nicer stationary,
explained Alan Rozenshtein, a former Department of Justice national security adviserShutting down such services doesn’t require long planning,
a source disclosed, emphasizing that operations remain functional as of this week
We will put measures in place to keep TikTok from going dark, ... as long as a viable deal is on the table. Essentially that buys President Trump time to keep TikTok going."
Waltz said
With today's opinion, all three branches of government have reached the same conclusion: ByteDance is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, and TikTok's ownership by ByteDance is a national security threat that cannot be mitigated through any other means than divestiture,
Krishnamoorthi saidEvery day that TikTok remains under the Chinese Communist Party's control is a day that our security is at risk,
Krishnamoorthi addedJust as the United States restricts the export of U.S.-origin technologies (e.g., certain computer chips), the Chinese government regulates the transfer of technologies developed in China,
the company argued in a court filingLet me be clear: TikTok has its problems,
Markey said in a statement released by his office