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posted by martyb on Friday August 07 2020, @01:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the Bytedance-bit-flipped dept.

From The Verge:

President Trump has signed a new executive order which will block all transactions with Bytedance, TikTok's parent corporation, in an effort to "address the national emergency with respect to the information and communication technology supply chain."

The move comes after months of escalating tensions, which saw Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and others at the White House warn that TikTok presented a national security threat because of its Chinese ownership. Microsoft is currently in talks to acquire portions of the app, aimed to be complete by September 15th.

A parallel order banned transactions with WeChat, a popular texting app in China that maintains a small user base in the US.

[...] The executive branch has the power to levy sanctions against individuals and corporations by placing them on the "entity list," as the US did against Huawei and ZTE last year. But such sanctions are typically put in place by the Commerce Department rather than the White House, and subject to a specific rule-making procedure that seems to have been short-circuited by the surprise executive order.

See also: Tencent stock plummets after Trump announces plan to ban WeChat in the US

Previously:
(2020-08-01) President Trump Threatens TikTok Ban, Microsoft Considers Buying TikTok's U.S. Operations[Updated 2]
(2020-07-07) Reddit and LinkedIn Stop Copying iPhone Clipboard Contents
(2020-06-30) India Bans TikTok, WeChat, and Other Chinese-Owned Apps
(2020-06-28) TikTok and 53 Other iOS Apps Still Snoop Your Sensitive Clipboard Data
(2019-12-27) Investigation Claims United Arab Emirates Uses The ToTok App To Spy
(2019-10-26) Lawmakers Ask US Intelligence to Assess If TikTok is a Security Threat


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday August 07 2020, @11:16PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Friday August 07 2020, @11:16PM (#1033245)

    If you haven't been paying attention, he threatens unilateral action for many many things, none of which he can do legally. Some of those threats even make it into EOs, but those get smacked down by the courts.

    So what that means is that he's made illegal orders, and it's taken a couple of years for it to work through the courts for the court system to definitively say that it's illegal, and meanwhile the illegal policy has been in effect. Oh, and after the courts smack it down, his administration will re-word the policy slightly and issue it again, so that the illegal policy continues to be in effect in all its essentials but the people who sued them have to start all over again.

    Oh, and the people who are doing the lawsuits to get the courts to say "yeah, this is illegal" are going to have to pay court fees and lawyers and such, so they're having to spend lots of money every time the president breaks the law. And eventually they won't have the money to spend.

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