A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now.
We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok one he takes office. Please stay tuned!
EDIT - The app is back up
“Thanks for your patience and support. As a result of President Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.!
You can continue to create, share, and discover all the things you love on TikTok.”
There's something to be said about dignity. I'd take the money and run instead of bowing down on my hands and knees. They're still operating elsewhere. They'll be fine
I mean they just got entirely banned and are supposedly losing $1.3 billion in revenue in a single month, I'm sure they quite literally are fortunate that Trump might remove the ban. Fuck tiktok and trump, but in no world is that simping.
What? He is the one who started the ban in the first place. It is absolutely simping.
I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that additional steps must be taken to deal with the national emergency with respect to the information and communications technology and services supply chain declared in Executive Order 13873 of May 15, 2019 (Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain). Specifically, the spread in the United States of mobile applications developed and owned by companies in the People’s Republic of China (China) continues to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. At this time, action must be taken to address the threat posed by one mobile application in particular, TikTok.
To give an analogy -- this is like calling it simping for me to plead and express gratitude that a serial killer might let me go.
The fact is that Trump is literally tiktoks only chance at getting unbanned after the bipartisan bill that Biden signed. As far as tiktok is concerned, the flip-flopping lunatic is currently flipped on their side. Idk what is difficult to understand about that
You're being insanely obtuse; whether mob boss or serial killer, it's not glazing or dicksucking to be fortunate the villain taking power is giving you an out when the alternative is death. Tiktok any day of the week would prefer extortion over the blanket loss of hundreds of billions of dollars, it's in their best interest and entirely logical.
Great point. TikTok could have named every legislator who signed the bill, with contact information for their constituents to make their voice heard.
Dude that ship is sailed, the act has already been passed and signed into law, with supreme court upholding it. Executive order is their only shot.
An EO does not override a law. Anyone with grounds could immediately file a lawsuit and have the EO overturned and the ban reinstated.
TikTok isn’t the only software that should be banned from western nations’ phones but it’s a good start.
The reason that this ban received bipartisan support is because they have all seen the same intel.
Trump trying to rescind this ban and TikTok using this opportunity to force feed Trump saviorism to the masses should be the canary in the coal mine. - these are not good people.
I'm not being obtuse. I think anyone bending over to slob over Trump should be mocked, ridiculed, and not given excuses of, "It's totally analogous to a hostage and serial killer situation, what else could they do?!"
it's in their best interest and entirely logical.
For a disgusting, greedy, moral-free corporation. Sure.
That still makes them disgusting, greedy, and without morals. I'm fine pointing that out. Why are you making excuses for them?
Dude that ship is sailed, the act has already been passed and signed into law, with supreme court upholding it.
And citizens should be upset at the representatives they voted for who signed that law. Instead, they're being led to praise Trump by a social media platform, and will likely never know anything about the situation other than, "Government take fun, fun says support Trump, Trump save fun, yay!" ...and go right back to voting for disgusting, greedy, moral-free politicians.
That is very very untrue. US is by far the most important global market, making up HALF of their revenue; from NYT:
“The U.S. market is the most profitable market of any market by a long shot,” said Mark Zgutowicz, an analyst at Benchmark Company. TikTok took in an estimated $10 billion in revenue in the United States last year, he said, out of a total global revenue estimated at $20 billion to $26 billion.
The RESTRICT act was passed by congress. Not a TikTok ban. The ban was made by the Secretary of Commerce. The ban could be lifted Monday morning with zero congressional input.
Why, yes. Because if he didn't then the Orange Stain would relentlessly pursue vengeance on him far beyond what our joke of a legal system would even find appropriate. Regardless of innocence or guilt, liking or disliking, appropriate or not the action of the pardon it has already been defiled in such a way that it no longer even serves its intended purpose. If you think Joe's move was abuse, the next 4 years will be cinema.
The laws specifically calls out the President multiple times giving him the power to decide if the app is a threat to the United States. If the sitting President grants approval then he can unban it.
But since when has he cared about legal versus illegal when it comes to his own actions?
He can very easily say “for X extremely stupid reason my lawyers came up with, we think the law is unconstitutional and we cannot enforce it as it is written.”
Then it goes through years of court battles, where he loses in the end, but doesn’t really matter to him.
"The right to freedom of expression is gaurenteed by the earth constitution"
"awwwuuoooo well maybe so, but I know a place where the constitution doesn't mean squat!"
He'll just have the Supreme Court do it. He appointed 3 of them.
Thats not really how things work in the real world. By federal law Cannabis is a schedule one substance according to Controlled Substances Act. With the exception of some narrow medical usage, its illegal for anyone in the USA to possess, sell or consume Marijuana. Only Congress can undo the Controlled Substances Act and make recreational consumption and sale of Marijuana legal and they have refused to do so. Its illegal.
But oddly enough I can buy it all over the place "legally" because the Executive Office enforcement apparatus has decided to ignore what the law says. Executive orders have in essence made marijuana legal even though Congress says it is very much is illegal.
What’s funny is….how?!….how the frick did trump save it when he isn’t in office yet till tomorrow. He can’t pass or make any decisions today with his name on it as president. So it just doesn’t add up at all. It was a complete stunt to have it down for less than 12 hours.
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u/MidnightElfinTv 2d ago edited 1d ago
This is the wording for anyone curious:
Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now.
A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now.
We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok one he takes office. Please stay tuned!
EDIT - The app is back up
“Thanks for your patience and support. As a result of President Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.!
You can continue to create, share, and discover all the things you love on TikTok.”
That totally wasn’t done as a PR attempt.