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That didn't take long. Can we now roll back the bill that gave presidents the authority to unilaterally ban a service in the first place?


The president didn't ban it. Congress did, and the Supreme Court upheld their right to.

I am opposed to the ban fwiw, but being able to overrule it is a pretty big power grab for the president


Didn't the law passed by Congress give the president the power to deem a service owned in part by foreign entities as a national security threat?

I may very well have horribly misunderstood the situation, but I though Congress here only allowed the president to decide.


No, there was a similar one letting the president declare nonprofits a terrorist organization though.

The TikTok one doesn't have input from the president, its all apps of a certain size owned by a country we dont like. Hence, Marvel Snap got banned too in the crossfire


My bad, its both actually. The law lists some criteria, unambiguously including TikTok and Bytedance by name, and then says the president can add more if they want, though this power has not been used yet.

It sucks so hard how the Dems keep expanding the powers of the Pres right before handing it to Trump


It sucks that they're expanding the powers at all. It doesn't matter who has the power today, it matters what the next person may do. Both parties are bad about expanding federal powers, it isn't the fault of one side.




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