White Home Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre referred to as TikTok’s menace to “go darkish” tomorrow a “stunt,” and mentioned there isn’t a cause that TikTok or every other corporations ought to take any actions underneath the ban earlier than the Trump administration is sworn in Monday morning, a number of information shops are reporting.
“It’s a stunt, and we see no cause for TikTok or different corporations to take actions within the subsequent few days earlier than the Trump Administration takes workplace on Monday,” MSNBC quotes Jean-Pierre as saying. “We’ve laid out our place clearly and straightforwardly: actions to implement this regulation will fall to the subsequent administration. So TikTok and different corporations ought to take up any considerations with them.”
The assertion comes someday after TikTok threatened to go offline if the Biden administration doesn’t provide reassurance that corporations like Apple and Google received’t be held chargeable for defying the ban, which the Supreme Court docket upheld yesterday. Firm CEO Shou Chew additionally appealed to Donald Trump, saying the corporate is “grateful” for his assist of the platform.
Trump mentioned {that a} “90-day extension is one thing that might be most definitely completed” throughout an interview with Meet The Press moderator Kristen Welker for NBC News. That adopted reporting earlier this week that the incoming President plans to difficulty an govt order doing so.
Provided that the ban’s deadline is up earlier than he’s sworn in, it’s not clear whether or not Trump can truly prolong it. He can select to not implement the ban, simply as Biden says he’ll, however that also leaves Apple and Google to resolve if Trump’s phrase is well worth the authorized danger that will include defying the ban by leaving the app accessible for obtain.