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TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users

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Re: TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users

#11
So once again it took the incoming president-elect Trump and for Biden to lose to intervene and reverse this ban and give an extension to TikTok.

If Biden or Harris won the election, TikTok would have been completely banned with zero intervention at all as you have seen with how it went and Biden whilst still being president would have done nothing and it took Trump to stop it.

Seriously the Democrats made themselves look very bad with this situation.

Re: TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users

#13
post #5

There was no executive order. Turning off Tiktok yesterday was a highly successful political stunt.

Bingo, bango, boingo. Just another way to help manipulate people into thinking Trump saved the day, once again. TikTok played the propaganda just right.

Re: TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users

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post #11

So once again it took the incoming president-elect Trump and for Biden to lose to intervene and reverse this ban and give an extension to TikTok. If Biden or Harris won the election, TikTok would have been completely banned with zero intervention at all as you have seen with how it went and Biden whilst still being president would have done nothing and it took Trump to stop it. Seriously the Democrats made themselves…

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Re: TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users

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post #11

So once again it took the incoming president-elect Trump and for Biden to lose to intervene and reverse this ban and give an extension to TikTok. If Biden or Harris won the election, TikTok would have been completely banned with zero intervention at all as you have seen with how it went and Biden whilst still being president would have done nothing and it took Trump to stop it. Seriously the Democrats made themselves…

Trump literally originated it back then.

Trump is not a president yet.

Re: TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users

#17

Tiktok has been working for the last 40 minutes for me after going dark last night. Some thoughts from Donald Trump: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1138556168486...

Incredible.

Isn't ByteDance already owned 60% by international (mostly American) investors?

https://usds.tiktok.com/who-owns-tiktoks-parent-company-byte...

Re: TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users

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post #5

There was no executive order. Turning off Tiktok yesterday was a highly successful political stunt.

There is, it's a few days old, and it's a non-enforcement from the Biden administration, according to the man himself and his staffers, he intends to let it be the next administration's problem. Whatever the next administration does when it takes power is yet to be seen.

The restrict act was written really strangely, and I assume Oracle required some assurance from someone to not just delete Bytedance's accounts and resources.

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