Beej Jorgensen @ beejjorgensen @lemmy.sdf.org

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"These reports have not been confirmed at this time," the article notes.

Sounds like a question for the judicial branch.

Goes on to form company called General Products, builds spacecraft hulls. 😉

And TikTok wants to be in his good graces. So they shut down their service voluntarily, then when Trump says they get the 90 days, they bring it back up immediately and thank him loudly for it.

It seems like the law prohibited distribution, but not use, is what I'm saying. So people could keep using it if Bytedance kept it up, right?

Point taken, but I'm just going to presume that all that will be declared satisfied in the EO in some token form or another.

AFAICT, TikTok didn't have to do anything. Looks like the law is all about preventing distribution of the app. So... why'd they shut it down?

has no basis in law

Wikipedia says, with a couple references:

The president may grant a one-time extension of the divestiture deadline by as long as 90 days if a path to a qualified divestiture has been identified, "significant" progress has been made to executing the divestiture, and legally binding agreements for facilitating the divestiture are in place.

So I think he can do it.

Does the FCC have the discretion to do that after Chevron, I wonder?

It's weird to see all these transparent, self-serving maneuvers playing out before our eyes. TikTok kisses ass. Trump, who advocated for a ban, now refuses to enforce it so his inauguration can be seen on it.

Did the law give Trump the power to change the deadline through executive order?

Also a great way for coinbase to curry favor with the Trump administration.

I always wished the Dems would leverage this power a bit more. But who knows--maybe this Biden move is trying to get Trump to ban it.

Trump: Ban TikTok! Trump: Save TikTok! Biden: Ban TikTok! Biden: Save TikTok!

Huh. I'll have to look into it more. My credentials stopped working there. Are you on matrix.sdf.org?

I have an account, but haven't been able to connect to the server in months. Has anyone else been able to connect?

It was working for me about 10 minutes ago. Uploaded an image and saved an avatar. (I'd already made an account maybe a year ago.)

But now: 504 Gateway Time-out :(

I agree.

For sure. Any social media company that says they're pro free speech is just posturing at best. They have full dictator control of their systems.

Yes. I don't have any guaranteed speech rights on Facebook.

I agree with you, but true free speech also gives Facebook the right to choose its own themes. I'd vote with my feet on this one, but I already abandoned Facebook years ago.