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TikTok says it's restoring service to US users based on Trump's promised executive order (apnews.com)

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It was a got damn stunt, offc

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[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm way more interested in the reactions of Google, Apple, Oracle, and the dozens of other corporations ByteDance depends on.

The "90-day extension" Trump keeps talking about has no basis in law except to conclude an in-process divestment, which currently doesn't exist. He can order the law not to be enforced, but you're still breaking the law. It'll interesting to see if those companies are willing to along with an executive order their counsel knows is illegal or are willing to knowingly break the law under the promise they won't be prosecuted (for now).

edit: IANAL

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, they can get away with it. They own the government, if the next president threw a fit about them going along with something that they knew was illegal because Trump was OK with it, do you think their lawyers wouldn't be able to make it go away for a meager fine that's 0.001% of their annual revenue?

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I'm curious whether "can probably get away with it" is enough for them. And whether they'll take the risk for no reward whatsoever in the case of Apple and Google.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

My point is that no path has been identified, no progress has been made, and nothing is in place.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I don't think that it can just be declared satisfied, though. I imagine Google and Apple's obscenely top-shelf representation will be like, "this has about this much legal merit":

But who knows! :)

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

How do I filter out every thread regarding a given string?

[–] Zip2 4 points 1 week ago

Ah you pussies. Come on, show them you’re serious. Go dark again. Show them you really mean it and do the rest of the territories too. Forever.

[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What could Trump do? Anyone know? The law is the law. Lemme guess. He’s just gonna not enforce the law?

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, it's a federal law, so yeah, basically. I mean, it's kind of up to the president if the DOJ actually prosecutes people for breaking federal law. Take Biden for example. He just pardoned a bunch of people who were in prison for federal drug charges. The laws they broke are still on the books, and what they did was still technically illegal, even if it's stupid to begin with.

Somebody at the DOJ could just go rogue and try to enforce the laws, but they would just be fired if the president didn't like it.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Marvel Snap is still down. Like the 1980s we nerds don't matter.

ETA: As of 11:16pm, PST, 2025-01-20, Snap's been up for a few hours but it's still not accessible on the Apple Store or Google Play.

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