With TikTok, owner ByteDance became the first Chinese company to achieve global success with a consumer app. But amid rising U.S.-China tensions, the Trump administration has threatened to ban TikTok and other Chinese-owned apps, citing national security risks.
U.S. President Donald Trump has now given ByteDance and Microsoft until Sept. 15 to reach a deal. Microsoft is also looking to buy the app’s Canadian, Australian and New Zealand services.
July 6, 2020 – When asked by Fox News if the United States was looking at a potential TikTok ban, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says: “we are taking this very seriously and we are certainly looking at it,” adding that TikTok user data could end up “in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.”
August 6, 2020 – President Trump issues executive order banning transactions with TikTok and ByteDance, starting in 45 days. The president also issues an executive order prohibiting transactions with another Chinese social media app, WeChat.
August 14, 2020 – President Trump orders ByteDance to divest its interest in TikTok’s U.S. operations within 90 days.
MacDailyNews Take: So, barring any sale of TikTok to approved U.S.-based buyers, i.e. Microsoft by September 15th, Trump’s deadline of 90 days starting August 14th is Thursday, November 12, 2020.
Imperial Rome had the same problem with a lazy Senate that imperial US how has with a lazy Congress; Caesar knew then that he could get away with dictatorial behavior like bad Donald is doing now with extremist use of executive orders.
Stupidity like this is just one reason why Americans hate libturds.
You’re mumbling. You are also bipolar. One doesn’t have to sign a loyalty oath to your leader, your party, or your platform acid tests to be an American who counts every but as much as you do. The many issues facing America today are too complex to force onto a single scale of conservative and liberal. Unless you are just here to show your crass unreasonable nature that is.
Overwhelmingly Americans do not support your insults. Nor those of the administration. They will vote for the candidate who defends the US Constitution and works HONESTLY for the long term good of ALL THE PEOPLE. Your man divides and undermines. Instead of making government work more efficiently, he is actively and openly shutting down the USPS. Explain how you could ever support such a traitor !!!
conservatives don’t need to support this corrupt administration.
You seriously believe the Obama administration wasn’t the most corrupt in 100 years?
If not, maybe this is why you have no idea the disdain we have for the über-left and how THEY are destroying inner cities and corrupting the political process with one phony scandal after another just to stay in the news and beat down the American public into submission for your party.
If you can’t honestly look at the corruption that has been uncovered FOR THE LAST 6 YEARS AND IGNORED BY THE MEDIA then you are a part of the bigger problem for allowing and even encouraging your party to rule this way.
You’re mumbling. You are also bipolar. One doesn’t have to sign a loyalty oath to your leader, your party, or your platform acid tests to be an American who counts every but as much as you do.
TRUE, BUT WE MUST RESIST THE LYING CORRUPT LEFT AT ALL COSTS
The many issues facing America today are too complex to force onto a single scale of conservative and liberal. Unless you are just here to show your crass unreasonable nature that is.
EVERY LIBERAL POSITION IS WRONG AND MUST BE RESISTED AT ALL COSTS
Overwhelmingly Americans do not support your insults. Nor those of the administration. They will vote for the candidate who defends the US Constitution and works HONESTLY for the long term good of ALL THE PEOPLE. Your man divides and undermines. Instead of making government work more efficiently, he is actively and openly shutting down the USPS. Explain how you could ever support such a traitor !!!
conservatives don’t need to support this corrupt administration.
GET YOU HEAD OUT OF CNN’S ASS AND YOU WILL SEE HOW STUPID YOUR COMMENTS ARE
As usual Hal (short for Halliburton?) has no civilized response or rationality to offer. When Hal and his cronies resort to IMMEDIATE personal attacks, we all know they are defeated.
Flush the turd on Nov 3rd!!!!!!!
Very well said !
My problem with Tik Tok was getting it confused with my urologist’s app, Dik Dok.
That ball-juggling video was embarrassing…
Wow, I thought conservatives hated governments telling businesses what do do. This is the most arbitrary intervention in corporate America we’ve ever seen. It damages this company, and the American reputation as a place for free markets, business, and especially tech to thrive.
If a Democrat had done it, there would be no end to the screams of “anti-business!!”
If Tik Tok users hadn’t insulted der führer wannabe, he wouldn’t even know what TT was. DaDonald uses only Twitter, despite whining that that company is also biased against his excellency wannabe. Ironic he relies on liberals to spread his gospel. Is he too lazy or stupid to use another platform? Is there no tech company created by geniuses that have all signed loyalty pledges to the Party of T-Rump? He can’t even get an app on the iOS store because Drump cannot understand rules, let alone submit to anyone else’s silly rules. Maybe a toothless illegal executive order would force Apple to fly the GOP banner. That is the kind of fascism that makes one proud all over.