Summary

TikTok’s request to pause a pending ban and January 19th sale deadline was denied by a federal appeals court.

The court upheld the constitutionality of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, citing national security concerns.

TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has until January 19th to sell or face a ban.

  • fluxion@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    This all seems so pointless while sites like X thrive.

    And now I’m realizing Musk will ensure it does get banned so he can slurp everyone up into his own foreign interference cesspool.

    Hopefully they all go to BlueSky instead.

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    5 months ago

    Getting to the spot to shut it off. I thought this all would work out, one way or another. Now, I’m starting to think maybe it won’t