What has been established for almost the entire year is that TikTok is safe from getting banned in the United States, and a new report revealed that President Donald J. Trump is extending its upcoming deadline again to avoid being taken down. It is essential to note that TikTok continues to face the infamous Foreign Adversary law, which threatens its operations in the country due to its connections to China.
That being said, President Trump has backed TikTok since the start of his reign, and it has already given the company two chances to find a US buyer and take over its operations to be safe from the law.
TikTok Is Getting an Extension From Trump Again
The Wall Street Journal shared a new report suggesting that TikTok’s upcoming deadline this month is getting an extension from President Trump again, helping the company still continue its operations in the country. The law remains in effect against TikTok, particularly since the company is designated as a foreign entity with access to United States user data.
This is the third time that President Trump is delaying the inevitable again, with the first one happening on June 20 rightafter he was sworn into office and began his second term as the leader of the US. The next one came after the original 75-day extension elapsed sometime around April, with the President executing another order to give the same number of days for TikTok to finalize its deal with a US company.
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The TikTok Ban: Upcoming June 19 Deadline
The last extension from April saw a June 19 deadline that is currently nearing, and without the intervention of President Trump, TikTok would see it go dark again as the law mandates it to be taken down if it operates outside an American entity.
The prohibitions against TikTok are not yet gone, and this problem is far from being in their rearview mirror as it requires them to be owned and operated by a US company. While there are already multiple companies and investors bidding for the platform, the US and China’s negotiations for it are still in the process of selecting one.
TikTok Is on Thin Ice in the United States
When January 19 came, TikTok effectively shut down its operations in the United States as the sale deadline for the company was up, and it has not yet found any buyers to take over the platform in the country. However, this was only a temporary ban that lasted for hours as immediately after President Trump was sworn in, he enacted an executive order that is essentially a sale deadline extension.
This first leeway from TikTok gave it a 75-day sale extension until early April, with the platform given more than two months to find a buyer in the United States that would divest it from ByteDance. Despite this, April 6 came and went without any deals being finalized or closed by ByteDance to any US company, but TikTok instead got another sale extension from the POTUS himself.
On the legal side of things, TikTok is still on thin ice as the Foreign Adversary law is still in effect, and it is hanging over their heads as they are not exempted from it, rather, they are only supported by the most powerful man in the country.TikTok is not yet safe from the looming ban, but the good thing is that it got significant support from the administration which gives it time until it finds the right buyer for it.
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