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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
The US Commerce Department has halted a ban on TikTok that was due to come into effect on Thursday night.
The order would have prevented the app from being downloaded in the US.
The Commerce Department delayed the ban "pending further legal developments," citing a Philadelphia court ruling from September where three prominent TikTokers had argued the app should be allowed to operate in America.
The decision will be a relief to the estimated 100 million US TikTok users.
In September, TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance announced a deal with Walmart and Oracle to shift TikTok's US assets into a new entity called TikTok Global.
Ars Technica adds:
ByteDance filed an appeal in federal court earlier this week asking for more time to make the Oracle deal happen. In short, ByteDance said, it has followed through on its end of the deal—now, it just needs the US government to remember what's going on.
"For a year, TikTok has actively engaged with CFIUS in good faith to address its national security concerns, even as we disagree with its assessment," TikTok said Tuesday in a statement. "In the nearly two months since the president gave his preliminary approval to our proposal to satisfy those concerns, we have offered detailed solutions to finalize that agreement—but have received no substantive feedback on our extensive data privacy and security framework."
Meanwhile, thanks to all that "pending legal action," the administration was already prohibited from putting any part of its TikTok bans into effect today.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Friday November 13 2020, @08:02PM (7 children)
That's because Trump has forgotten about the case, doesn't really care, it was just something about China for the tabloids to print. Probably doesn't even remember what TikTok is
Oh, and what's going to happen to that lady from Huawei that's locked up in Canada? Will Biden pursue that white elephant?
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2020, @08:46PM (1 child)
Beijing Biden will do whatever Xi tells him to.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2020, @12:09AM
Democrats have been Beijing's Bitch since they financed Bill Clinton's 1996 campaign -- it's been the DNC party leaders' goal to get personally rich and fuck America throughout my working life.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2020, @11:21PM (4 children)
There's lot of stuff that will somehow not magically appear now that the election is over. But I'd swear that awesome health care plan is only a couple weeks away from being released. Really!
I don't have much hope for that $200 senior citizen bribe scheme from happening either.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Saturday November 14 2020, @12:57AM (2 children)
I'm starting to think we're not gonna see those tax returns.
But on the other hand, a Grand Jury definitely will!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2020, @04:04PM (1 child)
You're a fool if you think that Trump, with his menagerie of lawyers, hasn't crossed all the t's and dotted the i's and j's to keep his nose above water.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2020, @02:52AM
You haven't been paying attention, have you? Everything he does is ruined by his own imcompentence. You would be right if he was the kind of person who would actually listen to his menagerie, but he isn't and never was.
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Sunday November 15 2020, @07:14PM
Wait until everyone making less than $100,000 per year finds out their taxes have already been increased for next year. Trump's "tax cuts" were actually deferred tax hikes. You can bet McConnell will do everything he can to prevent the Dems from reversing that.
(Score: 5, Funny) by barbara hudson on Friday November 13 2020, @08:53PM (1 child)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Friday November 13 2020, @10:02PM
That might actually be funny if he make little short videos instead of just twitting (or is it twatting when he does it?)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2020, @11:02PM (3 children)
Someone finally got the bribe money.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2020, @12:11AM
You mean speaking fees and book deals right? Gotta keep it looking clean you know.
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 14 2020, @11:48AM (1 child)
We prefer to refer to it as a voluntary contribution to the Clinton Foundation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2020, @05:01AM
But what about Hillary's emails!