White Home Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre known as TikTok’s menace to “go darkish” tomorrow a “stunt,” and mentioned there is no such thing as a cause that TikTok or another 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 now have laid out our place clearly and straightforwardly: actions to implement this legislation will fall to the following administration. So TikTok and different corporations ought to take up any issues with them.”
The assertion comes sooner or later after TikTok threatened to go offline if the Biden administration doesn’t supply reassurance that corporations like Apple and Google gained’t be held answerable for defying the ban, which the Supreme Courtroom upheld yesterday. Firm CEO Shou Chew additionally appealed to Donald Trump, saying the corporate is “grateful” for his help of the platform.
Trump mentioned {that a} “90-day extension is one thing that will probably be most definitely achieved” 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.
On condition 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 determine if Trump’s phrase is definitely worth the authorized danger that will include defying the ban by leaving the app obtainable for obtain.