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Judge Temporarily Blocks US Ban on New TikTok Downloads

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A federal judge on Sunday granted TikTok a preliminary injunction that temporarily halts an order from the Trump Administration that would have banned new app downloads in the United States beginning on Monday, reports The New York Times.

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Should the order have gone into effect, Apple and Google could have been forced to remove TikTok from their respective app stores, and users who already have the app installed would no longer receive updates.

TikTok can avoid a potential ban by selling its United States business to an American-based company. Last week, it was announced that TikTok would be partnering with Oracle and Walmart to form TikTok Global, a new company that would be headquartered in the United States. Under the initial proposal, Oracle would be responsible for storing user data and could also review TikTok's current source code and that of any subsequent updates.

"We're pleased that the court agreed with our legal arguments and issued an injunction preventing the implementation of the TikTok app ban," a spokesman for TikTok said on Sunday after the judge's decision. "We will continue defending our rights for the benefit of our community and employees. At the same time, we will also maintain our ongoing dialogue with the government to turn our proposal, which the president gave his preliminary approval to last weekend, into an agreement."
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President Trump signed an executive order in August giving ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, 90 days to sell its U.S. TikTok business due to possible national security threats from the China-based company. The preliminary injunction granted to TikTok, however, does not block additional restrictions set to be imposed in November that would render the app unusable in the country.

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NBAasDOGG said:
America is waaay to busy distracting their people from reality with their irrelevant agenda.
Meanwhile rest of the western society is enjoying their free colleges and healthcare...
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Maybe one day you will understand that nothing is free. Everything has a cost. If the end user is not paying the cost for something (in this case tertiary education or healthcare) then someone else is.

I will fix up your statement to be factual.

Meanwhile rest of the western society is enjoying their subsidised by every taxpayer colleges and healthcare.
 
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Theyayarealivin said:
Is it too late to download Tik-Tok now?
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Read the article please, the answer is there.

Theyayarealivin said:
This Tik-Tok App is so over-rated.
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That's your opinion, 10s..100s of millions think otherwise.

As for the article, this whole banning is political, Trump wants to ban it because TikTok users spoiled his rally, he should attack the users, not TikTok.

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Again, I said this earlier in another thread as well, why is the last sentence so controversial, it's a fact some users here can't accept, like the one with a Trump Avatar...says enough.
Also, there is not a single piece of evidence that TikTok is used by the Chinese Gov.
We (outside of the states) might start to think about banning Facebook & Google amongst all the other US made Apps, they are not a hair better (much worse), actually I think Facebook should be (by now) forbidden with all their data leaks..fake news and interfering in politics.
 
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the8thark said:
Maybe one day you will understand that nothing is free. Everything has a cost. If the end user is not paying the cost for something (in tis case tertiary education or healthcare) then someone else is.

I will fix up your statement to be factual.

Meanwhile rest of the western society is enjoying their subsidised by every taxpayer colleges and healthcare.
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That’s an extremely US centric way of looking at it. Much of the rest of the world doesn’t see things from this view point.

Equal access to all is the real difference I think you will find.
 
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I've never seen an explanation of what specific data the U.S. government thinks TikTok could potentially collect from civilian users or why they would believe the Chinese government having access to that data would = national security risk. That's on top of the fact that the CIA has already said they couldn't find any proof of TikTok sharing data with the Chinese government, only that it was "possible" that it could be done. The whole thing is incredibly vague and has no basis in real evidence or plausible explanation for how national security would be compromised.
 
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NBAasDOGG said:
America is waaay to busy distracting their people from reality with their irrelevant agenda.
Meanwhile rest of the western society is enjoying their free colleges and healthcare...
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I know Canada has free healthcare but who has free college?!???”
 
justperry said:
Read the article please, the answer is there.



That's your opinion, 10s..100s of millions think otherwise.

As for the article, this whole banning is political, Trump wants to ban it because TikTok users spoiled his rally, he should attack the users, not TikTok.
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More correctly, Trump should find some important presidential work to do and stop conducting purely personal, petty, juvenile attacks on citizens.
 
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cupcakes2000 said:
That’s an extremely US centric way of looking at it. Much of the rest of the world doesn’t see things from this view point.
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I am Australian and that's exactly how we see it. Our Medicare is subsidised by the taxpayer through government revenue and the Medicare levy. The UK people also see it this way as a subsidised thing (ie the NHS).

The rest of the world do see things from this point of view.

cupcakes2000 said:
Equal access to all is the real difference I think you will find.
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Outside the USA equal access is not an issue. Because Medicare and the NHS is available to everyone in the nation. It's not at all attached to your employer and job like it is in the USA. It's run by the federal government is both countries.

I don't blame you though. You didn't know I am not a US citizen and was talking from a "rest of the world" perspective.
 
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the8thark said:
I am Australian and that's exactly how we see it. Our Medicare is subsidised by the taxpayer through government revenue and the Medicare levy. The UK people also see it this way as a subsidised thing (ie the NHS).

The rest of the world do see things from this point of view.


Outside the USA equal access is not an issue. Because Medicare and the NHS is available to everyone in the nation. It's not at all attached to your employer and job like it is in the USA. It's run by the federal government is both countries.

I don't blame you though. You didn't know I am not a US citizen and was talking from a "rest of the world" perspective.
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Fair point. I’m British though, and we generally do not see it as a subsidised service, although we obviously know that it is paid for indirectly via tax.
 
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the8thark said:
Maybe one day you will understand that nothing is free. Everything has a cost. If the end user is not paying the cost for something (in tis case tertiary education or healthcare) then someone else is.

I will fix up your statement to be factual.

Meanwhile rest of the western society is enjoying their subsidised by every taxpayer colleges and healthcare.
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Taxpayers money going to free healthcare and free colleges is for sure better than spending almost all of it on military (AMERICA).
 
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cupcakes2000 said:
Fair point. I’m British though, and we generally do not see it as a subsidised service, although we obviously know that it is paid for indirectly via tax.
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Fair point. Well said. I realise what you say is your educated point of view. However so many others see it as a thing they just take for granted and don't think any more about it. Which is a shame. If they thought more about it, they'd respect the service more as it's a nice health safety net we all are collectively paying for through tax.
 
NBAasDOGG said:
Taxpayers money going to free healthcare and free colleges is for sure better than spending almost all of it on military (AMERICA).
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Nothing is free though. There is always a cost. Either in money or time or both.
It's not always obvious who is paying the cost sometimes though.

That's exactly why I use the words subsidised and not free. Just because I'm not paying for a service, doesn't make that service free. Someone else is paying the cost instead of me.
 
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It’s a shame when a story about Tik Tok has to be in the politics forum.

Oh, wait. Wrong thread. I’ll let myself out....
 
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I know Canada has free healthcare but who has free college?!???”
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We have free education in Finland, including college. Also our education system is rated one of the best in the world. Of course it's not free as we pay more taxes, but I think it works out great as it motivates people to study more and it creates higher value jobs.
 
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Good Job USA screwing your own president's power. No wonder everyone like to live and do business in USA. Rip benefits and when you are challened; use it's judiciary system to fend off and continue doing the same without consequences. USA is doomed in long term. Learn Chinese and be prepared to work for them. Accept no shame to that.
 
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