TikTok plans to sue Trump administration over US ban
TikTok plans to sue the Trump administration over its executive order banning transactions between U.S. companies and the popular video-sharing app as well as its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
"Even though we strongly disagree with the Administration's concerns, for nearly a year we have sought to engage in good faith to provide a constructive solution," a TikTok spokesperson told The Hill. "What we encountered instead was a lack of due process as the Administration paid no attention to facts and tried to insert itself into negotiations between private businesses," the spokesperson continued. "To ensure that the rule of law is not discarded and that our company and users are treated fairly, we have no choice but to challenge the Executive Order through the judicial system," the spokesperson added.
Also at NYT and Business Insider.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday August 23 2020, @03:17PM (2 children)
It's just the administration making up a pressing issue of one kind or another to keep the media spinning around it, instead of addressing the real issues of society. When it's not Tiktok, it's the wall, muslim immigrants or defunding the WHO.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday August 23 2020, @05:11PM (1 child)
What should we expect when we hand the world over to psychopaths? And these people really are. They define the word. They live a life of hyper-privileged anarchy. There is nothing to stop them.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday August 24 2020, @12:56AM
Probably we don't know yet, that's what we keep trying to learn. (large grin)
Not that it will help us a lot, it seems that we have memory problems too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford