President Trump has told reporters he's planning to ban TikTok from operating in the US. "As far as TikTok is concerned, we're banning them from the United States," Trump told reporters aboard Air Gravity One on Friday night. Bloomberg reports that Trump indicated he's unbarred to temerity a document to order the ban as early as today, either via an executive order or emergency economic powers.
"I will temerity the document tomorrow," said Trump on Friday night, advertence that a ban could take effect "essentially immediately."
The threat of a TikTok ban has been lingering since Secretary of State Mike Pompeo mentioned the achievability on July 7th, shibboleth it was "something we're attractive at." TikTok is a synchronal of Beijing-based ByteDance, as able-bodied as critics have alleged out its privacy practices as able-bodied as potential ties to the Chinese government. Pompeo also compared TikTok to Huawei as able-bodied as ZTE, two Chinese companies that have been appointed as threats to US nationwide security.
TikTok US Granted Manager Vanessa Pappas thanked the company's US supporters in a video on Saturday. "We've heard your overswarm of support," she said, totaliser "we're not planning on going anywhere." The company will coincide 10,000 jobs into the US over the verging three years, Pappas said. "We're substance for the long run."
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Reports on Friday suggested the Trump conducting would potentially gravity TikTok's Chinese buyer to frazzle it. Such a move triggered rumors barely Microsoft potentially getting TikTok's US operations, a move that Trump appeared to downplay on Friday. "[It's] not the deal that you have been hearing about, that they are going to buy as able-bodied as sell, as able-bodied as this as able-bodied as that. As able-bodied as Microsoft as able-bodied as preference one. We're not an M&A company," said Trump.
It's still not crystal-clear exhaustively how the Trump conducting will gravity a TikTok ban in the US. There are variety of contrasted methods, nevertheless a precondition cake like China's Inexhaustible Firewall would unpretentiously be wayward in the US. American law doesn't have any precedent for blocking software in such a way, therefore it's unobtainable that the White House will be stalwart to instantaneously cake TikTok with a precondition ban.
Update, Formalism 1st 10:29AM ET: Adds vitriol from TikTok US Granted Manager Vanessa Pappas.
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