Wait… Was That the TikTok Ban?

等等……这是 TikTok 禁令吗?

The Journal.

2025-01-22

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President Trump tried to ban TikTok during his first term, but now he’s being hailed as the app’s savior. WSJ’s Georgia Wells explains the saga to make a deal with the Chinese-owned social media app.  Further Reading: -TikTok Restoring Service for U.S. Users, After Trump Signals He Will Save It  -What Happens Now That TikTok’s Gone Dark?  Further Listening: -The TikTok Ban Goes to the Supreme Court  -Readers Can’t Get Enough of BookTok. Publishers Are Cashing In.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • On Monday, just hours after he was sworn into office, President Donald Trump signed a stack of executive orders.

  • One of them delayed enforcement of a ban on TikTok in the U.S.

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  • President signed an executive order to delay the ban on TikTok for 75 days.

  • In hopes of giving the app's Chinese owner enough time to sell off its US assets.

  • Wasn't it President Trump who back in 2020 was the person who sort of kicked off this whole effort to ban TikTok in the first place?

  • Yes, the very same President Trump.

  • Our colleague Georgia Wells reports on TikTok.

  • This has been utter whiplash that Trump in his first term.

  • The president who tried to ban or take away TikTok in this country is now the person who's spearheading an attempt to bring it back.

  • So much so that in the push alert to users, TikTok thanks President Trump for his work on this.

  • So TikTok is still functioning.

  • It's thanking President Trump.

  • But is the story really over?

  • Is it really actually saved now?

  • So this is a company that has been facing the prospect of a ban for years and seems to have potentially shifted the tide on this ban attempt, but it's not done.

  • We are very much still in a wait and see.

  • TikTok still has this law hanging over its head.

  • It has a brief reprieve, but this is not done for TikTok.

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