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This is one of those things where the domestic politics has become so upside down and crazy that it turns out there’s only upside for Trump now,
said Bill Bishop, a China expert who has been closely following the back-and-forth
We go where our community is and right now that includes TikTok. If they shift to other platforms in the future, we'll be right there with them,
Kory Marchisotto, chief marketing officer at e.l.f. Beauty, said in a statement to Reuters
TikTok is the hub of beauty nowadays. It used to be YouTube, then it was Instagram, and now it is TikTok,
Halliday saidWe have pretty much stayed viral since the beginning of the TikTok shop launch last year,
said VerzwyveltI’m asking companies not to let TikTok stay dark!”
his posted on his Truth social platform
Every client has known about this possibility of TikTok going away since April of 2024, so everybody has done some preparation,
Boykiv saidThese TikTok shops are mass 'clearancing' their products in anticipation of the ban, so I'm linking some clearance products that I love for skin care,
one user told her 65,000 followersFor the last decade Congress has focused on content moderation, the one aspect of tech policy they are constitutionally prohibited from regulating,
said Nu Wexler, a former Senate staffer who has worked at Facebook, Twitter and Google
Should a single person have the power to exclude persons from services that are essential to modern commerce and social life? Should a corporation whose legal duties are to its shareholders, rather than the public welfare, have free rein even if padding their profits injures people?”
Sitaraman asked, before noting thatNow we’re reduced to companies writing big checks and begging the next president to ignore a law,
he saidWe know the Chinese Communist Party are using this as a data collection bonanza,
he said, contending the campaign's presence on the platform as "a superhighway" for election interference
When President Trump issued the Truth 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
It’s clear that more time is needed to find an American buyer for TikTok,
the Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, said on 16 JanuaryBy doing this, we save TikTok, keep it in good hands and allow it to say (sic) up,
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The current situation where TikTok is allowed to operate in America, but X is not allowed to operate in China is unbalanced. Something needs to change."
As Elon Musk, owner of the competitor platform X noted this week
I’m deeply disappointed that TikTok went dark last night. I will not stop fighting to fix this mistake in the United States.”
Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who has attempted to buy the platform more time for a sale, said Sunday morningThe law doesn’t require TikTok to shut down immediately. TikTok could switch to overseas servers and provide service to the 170M Americans who already have the app,
Alan Rozenshtein, a former Justice Department official who teaches at the University of Minnesota Law School said Saturday nightOur 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 White House official told POLITICO then
What are we a bunch of chumps
asked former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel on CNN Sunday, criticizing those he said were as flexible as ballet dancers in their beliefsYou can’t use TikTok for now,
the company said in a pop-up at the time