By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-18 20:59:13 | Updated at 2025-01-19 01:22:08
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Trump says he ‘most likely’ will give TikTok a 90-day extension to avoid US ban
AP News ^ | January 18, 2025
Posted on 01/18/2025 12:50:21 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he “most likely” would give TikTok 90 more days to work out a deal that would allow the popular video-sharing platform to avoid a U.S. ban.
Trump said in an NBC News interview that he had not decided what to do but was considering granting TikTok a reprieve after he is sworn into office on Monday. A law that prohibits mobile app stores and internet hosting services from distributing TikTok to U.S. users takes effect on Sunday.
Under the law passed by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden last year, TikTok’s China-based parent company had nine months to sell the platform’s U.S. operation to an approved buyer. The law allows the sitting president to grant an extension if a sale is in progress.
“I 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. You know, it’s appropriate,” Trump told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker in a phone interview. “We have to look at it carefully. It’s a very big situation.
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To: MinorityRepublican
Why give PRC 90 more days to collect more data on Americans?
Temu is more dangerous than TikTok. Temu has our credit card numbers.
2 posted on 01/18/2025 12:53:40 PM PST by Bobbyvotes (Congrats to Trump/Vance tea.m. America has been saved. For a while at least. )
To: MinorityRepublican
What does it mean “a sale is in progress”? It seems to me that this is amorphous and that the President can choose to interpret it liberally.
3 posted on 01/18/2025 12:54:30 PM PST by maro (MAGA!)
To: MinorityRepublican
Good! The way this is written allows further intrusion by the federal government into many other areas of our free speech.
4 posted on 01/18/2025 12:54:48 PM PST by mythenjoseph (`Islam has no place within a Christian society)
To: MinorityRepublican
Good Lord, hasnt he had enough of that phony Welker
5 posted on 01/18/2025 12:56:47 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (What does the Deep State have on Dims and RINOs? Demand release of all tax returns)
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