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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

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Post by rvz »

watwut wrote: post #15
rvz wrote: 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.

You realize that is even worse for the Democrats? So why didn't Biden stop it? He had plenty of time to do so and he did not and signed it.

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Post by ripped_britches »

For those saying there’s no executive order yet or that Trump is not president yet, the point is that they received confirmation that there will be an executive order, meaning they can rely on a 90 day extension of non-enforcement.

So while there is some irony with Trump having previously supported the ban, the practical reality is that he and Susquehanna and the Republicans all are winning big on this one, from a political/financial lens.

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Post by airstrike »

mrtksn wrote: post #12

Amazing stunt: The establishment tried to limit freedom of speech and Trump saved the day. Probably a pre-agreed sequence of events. Never mind that it was him who initially trued to ban it. Nevertheless a positive development.

I don't think that's an accurate read. Everyone was playing chicken and the US won. TikTok will be up for sale again, except this time with way less leverage in negotiating a sale.

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Post by jsheard »

wumeow wrote: post #23
ipsum2 wrote: post #5

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

Everyone got played by what is effectively joint CCP/Trump propaganda and they’re cheering about it. Bleak, bleak, bleak.

Especially given that Trump initiated the push to ban TikTok in the first place.

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Post by ctippett »

ReptileMan wrote: post #16
andrewflnr wrote: post #4

On today, the 19th, Trump isn't president yet and can't issue executive orders. Ed: to be clear, the original title specifically mentioned an executive order.

Timezones are always the doom of programmers.

It's not yet the 20th anywhere in North America.

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

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Post by andrewflnr »

ReptileMan wrote: post #16
andrewflnr wrote: post #4

On today, the 19th, Trump isn't president yet and can't issue executive orders. Ed: to be clear, the original title specifically mentioned an executive order.

Timezones are always the doom of programmers.

I live in Virginia.
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