{"id":123289,"date":"2025-06-18T14:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/18\/surprise-surprise-the-tiktok-ban-is-delayed-a-third-time\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T14:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:03:13","slug":"surprise-surprise-the-tiktok-ban-is-delayed-a-third-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/18\/surprise-surprise-the-tiktok-ban-is-delayed-a-third-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise, Surprise, The TikTok Ban Is Delayed A Third Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing says strong national security hygiene like letting \u201cdata collection\u201d and \u201cinfluence operations\u201d fester! There was a big hubbub about the threat that TikTok posed to the American public. A Singaporean national got hounded over his alleged connections to China and the dance app went dark shy of 24 hours, but that\u2019s been the only real public push against TikTok that we\u2019ve seen for a while now. The bill that intends to ban TikTok and similar apps from foreign nations is still in play, but presidential deadline extensions are keeping everyone from making that final step to getting a VPN and migrating over to Xiaohongshu. CBS News<\/a> has coverage:<\/p>\n

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President Trump has once again delayed the enforcement of a bipartisan law that would effectively ban TikTok in the U.S. A deal to separate TikTok from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, has remained elusive.
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\u201cAs he has said many times, President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark. This extension will last 90 days, which the Administration will spend working to ensure this deal is closed so that the American people can continue to use TikTok with the assurance that their data is safe and secure,\u201d Leavitt said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I am a firm believer that the average person has no reason to worry about China stealing their data via TikTok \u2014 they\u2019d have an easier job of just buying<\/em> the intel directly from Palantir<\/a>. Or Elon Musk<\/a>. Or Facebook<\/a>. Or Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Enjoy your next 90 days of TikToking! Unless tomorrow comes and Trump decides not to extend the deadline last minute. He\u2019s flip flopped on worse things<\/a>, after all. <\/p>\n

Trump To Sign Order Extending TikTok Deadline Another 90 days, White House Says<\/a> [CBS News]<\/p>\n

Earlier<\/strong>: TikTok Could Be Back Up On The Chopping Block Soon<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com <\/a>and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Surprise, Surprise, The TikTok Ban Is Delayed A Third Time<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Nothing says strong national security hygiene like letting \u201cdata collection\u201d and \u201cinfluence operations\u201d fester! There was a big hubbub about the threat that TikTok posed to the American public. A Singaporean national got hounded over his alleged connections to China and the dance app went dark shy of 24 hours, but that\u2019s been the only real public push against TikTok that we\u2019ve seen for a while now. The bill that intends to ban TikTok and similar apps from foreign nations is still in play, but presidential deadline extensions are keeping everyone from making that final step to getting a VPN and migrating over to Xiaohongshu. CBS News<\/a> has coverage:<\/p>\n

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President Trump has once again delayed the enforcement of a bipartisan law that would effectively ban TikTok in the U.S. A deal to separate TikTok from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, has remained elusive.
\u2026
\u201cAs he has said many times, President Trump does not want TikTok to go dark. This extension will last 90 days, which the Administration will spend working to ensure this deal is closed so that the American people can continue to use TikTok with the assurance that their data is safe and secure,\u201d Leavitt said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I am a firm believer that the average person has no reason to worry about China stealing their data via TikTok \u2014 they\u2019d have an easier job of just buying<\/em> the intel directly from Palantir<\/a>. Or Elon Musk<\/a>. Or Facebook<\/a>. Or Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Enjoy your next 90 days of TikToking! Unless tomorrow comes and Trump decides not to extend the deadline last minute. He\u2019s flip flopped on worse things<\/a>, after all. <\/p>\n

Trump To Sign Order Extending TikTok Deadline Another 90 days, White House Says<\/a> [CBS News]<\/p>\n

Earlier<\/strong>: TikTok Could Be Back Up On The Chopping Block Soon<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s . \u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0[email\u00a0protected] <\/a>and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing says strong national security hygiene like letting \u201cdata collection\u201d and \u201cinfluence operations\u201d fester! There was a big hubbub about the threat that TikTok posed to the American public. A Singaporean national got hounded over his alleged connections to China and the dance app went dark shy of 24 hours, but that\u2019s been the only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Chris-Williams-2025-ssNASB.jpeg?fit=512%2C288&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}