Trump orders Justice Department to not enforce TikTok ban
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Source: CBS news
By Caitlin Yilek January 20, 2025 / 9:09 PM EST
Washington — President Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing the Justice Department to not enforce a law that effectively bans TikTok for 75 days.
It directs the Justice Department not to take action or impose penalties against "any entity for any noncompliance" with the law.
The widely popular short-form video app briefly shuttered in the U.S. this weekend hours before a bipartisan law that gave TikTok's China-based parent company ByteDance until Jan. 19 to divest or be cut off from U.S. app stores and web-hosting services went into effect.
TikTok said a sale wasn't possible in the nine-month timeframe it was given and challenged the law, but that challenge was rejected by a unanimous Supreme Court decision on Friday.
Mr. Trump, who sought to ban the app over national security concerns during his first term, vowed to "save" TikTok before he was sworn in this time around. On Monday, he said the U.S. "has bigger problems" and added that he had a "warm spot" for the app. ..........
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tiktok-ban-justice-department-enforcement/
Seriously--does the US now have a Justice Dept that takes orders from Trump??
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