West Palm Beach, Florida – President Donald Trump said on Friday Another 75 days To give your administration more time to download a contract for the conclusion of a social media platform for American property.
The order was announced when the White House officials believed that yes is approaching the contract In order for the application to be turned to a up-to-date company based in the USA and is owned and served by the majority American investorsAccording to the minority person of China, according to a person familiar with this matter.
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But Beijing hit the brakes on Thursday after Trump announced extensive tariffs around the world, including against China. Bytedance representatives called on the White House to indicate that China had no longer approved the contract until trade and tariff negotiations occur, said the person who spoke provided anonymity to discuss the sensitive details of the negotiations.
Congress ordered that the platform be deprived of China on January 19 or prohibited in the USA based on national security, but Trump moved unilaterally to extend the deadline for this weekend, because he tried to negotiate the contract on maintaining it. Trump has recently played a number of offers of American companies that want to buy the share of the popular social media website.
But on Friday it was not certain whether the initial agreement could be announced after the Chinese government reversed, the (*75*) ability to send glowing signals about the nature of the agreement, which was reached for fear of disturbing negotiations with Chinese regulatory bodies.
Within months, the construction of JD Vance vice president was approaching within months, he negotiated directly with several potential investors and officials from Bytedance. The plan summoned the 120-day closing period to finalize documents and finance. The contract also had approval of existing investors, up-to-date investors, Bytedance and administration.
Trump’s administration was sure that China would approve the proposed contract until the tariff came into force. Trump pointed out on Friday that he could still conclude a contract during a 75-day extension.
“My administration worked very hard on the Tiktok saving contract, and we have made great progress,” said Trump on his social media platform. “The contract requires more work to ensure the signing of all necessary approvals, which is why I sign an executive order to maintain a thicket for an additional 75 days.”
Trump added: “We are looking forward to cooperation with Tiktok and China to complete the contract.”
The Bytedance spokesman confirmed in a statement that the company discusses the “potential solution” with the US government, but noticed that “the contract was not concluded”.
“Key matters should be resolved,” said the spokesman. “All contracts will be approved under Chinese law.”
Tiktok, which is based in Singapore and Los Angeles, said it Priorities for user safetyAnd the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the Chinese government never asked companies to “collect or provide data, information or interview” in foreign countries.
Trump’s extension means a second time when it was temporarily blocked Law 2024 This banned the popular Social Video application after the date of byenetance to get rid of. This law was adopted with bilateral support in Congress and unanimously maintained the Supreme Court, which stated that the ban was necessary for national security.
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the highest democrat in the China selection committee and co -author of the Tiktok Act, said on Friday that there should be no further delays. “The bidders are set in the queue and the clock is ticking. There are no excuses. It’s time to do the work. It’s time to follow the law and save the thicket,” he said.
Although the decision to maintain a tiktoku using an executive order received some control, it did not stood a legal challenge in court. This kind of resignation is unlikely, as legal experts say, partly due to how arduous it is to establish a law or position to sue. The plaintiff would have to be able to show damage to delay in enforcement of law.
Sarah Kreps, the director of the technology policy of Cornell University, said that she did not believe that nobody has this position.
“It would be different if this platform was not there yet,” she said. “But if you just try to continue the status quo, it’s different.”
Despite this, if the extension maintains control over the Tiktok algorithm under Bytedance, concerns about national security led to a ban.
Chris Pierson, general director of the Cybernetic Safety Platform and the Protection of Privacy Blackcloak, said that if the algorithm is still controlled by Bytedance, it is still “controlled by a company that is in a foreign, opposite nation -state that could actually use this data for other funds.”
“The main reason for all this is data control and algorithm control,” said Pierson, who for over a decade was the Privacy Committee of the Department of Internal Security and Cybernetic Safety Subcommittee. “If none of these two things change, this has not changed the basic goal and did not change the presented risk that is presented.”
The law allows one 90-day relief, but only if there is a table agreement and a formal notification to the Congress. As Alan Rzensenshtein said, Trump’s actions violate the law, a professor of associate law at the University of Minnesota.
RESENSHTEIN pushed Trump to pushed that delaying the ban is an “extension.”
“Nothing expands. This is simply a one -sided declaration incompatible with the execution,” he said. “Everything he does is say that it will not enforce the law for 75 days. The law is still in force. Companies still violate them by providing services to Tiktok.
The extension appears at a time when the Americans are even closer to what to do with a thicket than two years ago.
Recent Pew Research Center study He stated that about a third of Americans stated that they were supporting the ban on Tiktok, compared to 50% in March 2023, about a third stated that they would oppose the ban, and a similar percentage stated that they were not sure.
According to the report, among those who said that they supported the prohibition of the social media platform, about 8 out of 10 fears about the security of user data is threatened as the main factor of their decision.
Terrell Wade, the creator of the content of 1.5 million followers in Tiktok under the control of @Thewadeempire, from January has been trying to increase his presence on other platforms.
“I am glad that there is an extension, but to be candid, browsing this process seems a bit exhausting again,” he said. “Every time a up-to-date term appears, it begins to resemble a real threat less and more like noise in the background. This does not mean that I ignore it, but it is arduous to react with the same urgency every time.”
He maintains his profile on Instagram, YouTube and Facebook in addition to Tiktok.
“I just hope that we will soon gain more clarity so that creators like me and consumers can focus on other things, and not on” what if, “he said.
