The ballad of the TikTok ban continues, with newly-inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to delay the app’s ban by at least 75 days. This doesn’t mean TikTok is completely in the clear, but it does offer the app a lifeline to come to some sort of deal with the U.S. government and avoid an outright ban.
Trump doesn’t have the power to unilaterally “unban” TikTok via executive order. That was made very clear during his first term, when a 2020 executive order trying to ban TikTok was overruled on first amendment grounds. Instead this new executive order means that the Justice Department has been instructed not to enforce the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act“ for the next 75 days.
