Carrie Cordero: Trump Doesn’t Provide Any Provision that Say He Can Change Outcome of TikTok Ban

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CORDERO: “The implementation of this has really turned out to be quite a cluster. The law that was passed by Congress last spring was bipartisan and really doesn‘t provide any precedent, whether that was President Biden or President Trump, much flexibility for making changes to it. It said that either TikTok should be divested and sold to another company, or that potentially there could be some kind of deal that would take place, or it needs to go offline. And the president — it doesn‘t provide, really, any specific provision in the law that says the president can change that outcome. Now, if he issues an order, what he will basically have to say is that the companies that are charged with implementing the law won‘t be fined, won‘t be enforced because the fines that are in place in the law actually don‘t apply to TikTok, they apply to the companies that provide access to the app, the Apples and the Googles, as well as potentially the companies that are providing the service to it, so like an Oracle. So it‘s those companies that are on the hook.”