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President Trump gives TikTok 75 more days as he assesses the situation, legal experts say the order does little to save the company
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President Trump signed an executive order allowing TikTok to operate in the US for 75 more days as he assesses the situation.
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The order also prohibits penalties against companies such as Apple and Google for distributing TikTok in their app stores after a dateline for the ban of TikTok was reached on Jan.19.
“Essentially with TikTok I have the right to sell it or close it,” Trump said after signing the executive order. “We may have to get approval from China. I’m not sure. I’m sure they’ll approve.”
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Trump floated the idea of imposing tariffs on China if they didn’t approve the sale of TikTok’s US assets.
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Some legal experts say the executive order does not prevent app stores from being penalized for hosting TikTok.
“Those actions do not stop the law from being in effect. And it does not stop, let’s say, Oracle, from violating the law — which, as far as I can tell, it is doing right now,” Alan Rozenshtein of the University of Minnesota Law School said.
“And even if that’s OK, the president doesn’t have the authority to eliminate the law itself and remove liability for the people who violate it while it’s not being enforced,” Professor Zachary Price of the University of California College of the Law said.