United States to Ban TikTok as Soon as Saturday

CNBC also says Microsoft is trying to buy them out so if that happens, then this might change?

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/trump-says-he-will-ban-tikto...

He said he didn’t care if MS bought them or not.

Which kind of undercuts the BS national security angle but... these things aren’t meant to make actual sense.

> Which kind of undercuts the BS national security angle

Disagree.

Under what statue or authority?

way to go!

China loses a 350 million market. The US loses a 1400 million market. I wonder who ends up better off.

is that even legal?

Yes, to a degree, although the laws in the books have never been used against a single company like this before.

We have laws preventing all American companies from cooperating with Iranian ones, such that I as an independent Mac app developer cannot sell my app in Iran (no one can). We have similar laws regarding even the transport of encryption algorithms.

The real legal question is whether Trump can do this via an EO, or whether he'll need Congress to do another China bill.

Probably not.

But... uh...