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The US government has determined that this is a surveillance tool and not an ordinary social media business. However, if it is just a business as you claim, then you should be happy to sell it because businesses are motivated by money, and you will get paid literally all the money for a platform as valuable as this."
The TikTok legislation essentially said
No, we don't want to risk anyone being able to look at the insides of our spycraft tool; the money is not important; we'll just shut the whole thing down."
But in response, instead of selling TikTok or, as an alternative, maintaining the still-abundant revenue stream from legacy users in the US and foregoing any future business expansion, ByteDance and its Chinese intelligence overlords effectively saidI think that would be, certainly, an option that we look at. The 90-day extension is something that will be most likely done, because it's appropriate,
he said, ahead of Monday's inauguration
It’s kind of just accepting that you have to walk into a new arena and hope to find an audience there,
she said
There’s not a whole lot of transparency going on, which makes the ban all that much more frustrating,
he saidI know so many teachers who have been able to make a second income with this app,
she said,If TikTok being banned doesn't radicalize you as a U.S citizen, you are intentionally missing the point, because it's not about TikTok,
Vandala said
I think we're good to go, but for what you know, said so far, TikTok is not being banned, as it was planned. Hopefully they don't change their minds on Sunday."
He addedTrump has said he's not going to ban TikTok, so, I don't want to count our chickens before they hatch, but it looks like we're going to be keeping our [for you page], we're going to be keeping all our algorithm, we're gonna still be seeing TikTok shop videos every single day, but we're still going to have TikTok."
User @allenownz, who has 3.4 million followers on TikTok, said on Friday in a videoDoes anyone know if the TikTok ban goes into effect on Sunday or if we have all of Sunday to like brain rot still? I need to plan accordingly,
fitness influencer Britany Williams joked to her 64,000 followers
China will take all necessary measures to resolutely safeguard its legitimate rights and interests,
a spokesperson declared FridayWe see no reason for TikTok or other companies to take actions in the next few days before the Trump Administration takes office on Monday,
the White House said
I'm going to save TikTok."
During his 2024 campaign, Trump joined the app and said in a video posted in JuneWe're hoping that upping that limit up to three minutes will help you to tell the stories that you really want to tell,
Mosseri said in a video messageCongress wrote this law to be virtually president-proof,
warned Adam Kovacevich, chief executive of industry trade group Chamber of Progress
If an executive order conflicts with an existing law, the law takes precedence, and the order can be struck down by the courts."
Sarah Kreps, professor of government and law at Cornell University, saidI’m very, very concerned about what’s going to happen over the next couple weeks,
said Desiree Hill, owner of Crown’s Corner mechanic shop in Conyers, Georgia
Today’s unprecedented decision upholding the TikTok ban harms the free expression of hundreds of millions of TikTok users in this country and around the world,
said Kate Ruane, a director at the Washington-based Center for Democracy & Technology, which has supported TikTok’s challenge to the federal lawIf TikTok goes away, there’s going to be a real hole in the market,
Dominique Raccah, the publisher and chief executive of Sourcebooks, told the New York Times
(The ... The app) is all in Mandarin, I believe, and there’s a lot of terms which I don’t know what I’m agreeing to,
he explained