{"id":20494,"date":"2025-01-21T00:21:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T01:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20494"},"modified":"2025-01-21T01:26:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T01:26:42","slug":"trump-signs-executive-order-in-attempt-to-delay-tiktok-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20494","title":{"rendered":"Trump Signs Executive Order in Attempt to Delay TikTok Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Trump signed an executive order on Monday to delay enforcing a federal ban of TikTok<\/a> for at least 75 days, even though the law took effect on Sunday and it is unclear that such a move could override it.<\/p>\n

The order, one of Mr. Trump\u2019s first acts after taking office, instructs the attorney general not to take any action to enforce the law so that his administration has \u201can opportunity to determine the appropriate course forward.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

The order could immediately face legal challenges, including over whether a president has the power to halt enforcement of a federal law. Companies subject to the law may determine that the order does not provide a shield from legal liability.<\/p>\n

The federal law banning TikTok, which is owned by China\u2019s ByteDance, mandated that the app needed to be sold to a non-Chinese owner or it would be blocked. The law allows a president to grant a 90-day extension if a buyer is found, but only if there is \u201csignificant progress\u201d on a deal that can be completed within that period. It is not clear that the extension is available, given that the law is already in effect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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By seeking to override the federal law, Mr. Trump raised serious questions about the limits of presidential power and the rule of law in the United States. Some lawmakers and legal experts have expressed concerns about the legality of an executive order, particularly in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that upheld<\/a> the law on Friday and the national security concerns that prompted legislators to draft it in the first place.<\/p>\n

Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had signed the law<\/a>, which passed overwhelmingly in Congress last year, forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban. TikTok had faced security concerns that the Chinese government could use it to spread propaganda or collect U.S. user data. The law levies financial penalties on app stores and cloud computing providers unless they stop working with the app.<\/p>\n

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President Trump signed an executive order on Monday to delay enforcing a federal ban of TikTok for at least 75 days, even though the law took effect on Sunday and it is unclear that such a move could override it.The order, one of Mr. Trump\u2019s first acts after taking office, instructs the attorney general not to take any action to enforce the law so that his administration has \u201can opportunity to determine the appropriate course forward.\u201d The order could immediately face legal challenges, including over whether a president has the power to halt enforcement of a federal law. Companies subject to the law may determine that the order does not provide a shield from legal liability.The federal law banning TikTok, which is owned by China\u2019s ByteDance, mandated that the app needed to be sold to a non-Chinese owner or it would be blocked. The law allows a president to grant a 90-day extension if a buyer is found, but only if there is \u201csignificant progress\u201d on a deal that can be completed within that period. It is not clear that the extension is available, given that the law is already in effect.By seeking to override the federal law, Mr. Trump raised serious questions about the limits of presidential power and the rule of law in the United States. Some lawmakers and legal experts have expressed concerns about the legality of an executive order, particularly in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that upheld the law on Friday and the national security concerns that prompted legislators to draft it in the first place.Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had signed the law, which passed overwhelmingly in Congress last year, forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban. TikTok had faced security concerns that the Chinese government could use it to spread propaganda or collect U.S. user data. The law levies financial penalties on app stores and cloud computing providers unless they stop working with the app.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20496,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20497,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20494\/revisions\/20497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}