The US president has said if a deal is not done by the specified date, he will shut down the Chinese video app
New York — It is looking increasingly likely that TikTok will not be able to sell its US operations by the mid-September deadline imposed in an executive order issued by US President Donald Trump in August. But that doesn’t mean the video app beloved by tens of millions of teens will go dark overnight.
“There is no authority in the US to ban TikTok content, ban people from watching it, or ban people for working with TikTok, that’s just the president exaggerating his authority to put pressure on the deal,” says James Lewis, director of the technology policy program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think-tank. “You can put obstacles up, but there are workarounds.
In August, Trump issued a pair of executive orders requiring ByteDance to sell TikTok’s US operations or shut them down, citing national security concerns. The administration claims that ByteDance could be compelled to hand over US users’ data to Beijing or use the app to influence the 100-million Americans who use it.
It’s unclear if TikTok will meet the September deadline to sell its US operations outlined in Trump’s initial executive order issued on August 6. That order gave TikTok 45 days to sell itself or stop doing business with Americans, invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which gives the president broad authority to regulate financial transactions in a national emergency.
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