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Calling it now, the supposed "rumors" of Musk wanting to buy out TikTok are suddenly going to become not-rumors on January 21st.
Calling it now, it's not gonna happen. And I'll be back in this threat when dust settles
They're not selling
Don't need to. The government can seize the brand and US infrastructure.
Lol that would be an absolute mess. And they'd end up having to redo everything from the ground up because Bytedance isn't gonna hand over encryption keys and would probably wipe everything important if they knew that was coming
Mister "I'm gonna be a dictator for a day" and getting elected on that platform making a mess? No way!
I'm no lawyer but I don't even think it's that complex.
The law as written states "...However, the prohibition does not apply to a covered application that executes a qualified divestiture as determined by the President."
It goes on the clarify in a little more detail what a " qualified divestiture" is, but ultimately the determination seems to be by the President.
Trump can "make a deal" that he considers a "qualified divestiture" and allow the app again. For example ByteDance can sell TikTok to AmericaDance, a new company that just so happens to work for and does everything ByteDance does.
Now this wouldn't hold up in any real court, but that would take A LONG time to resolve at which point Trump declares a win and likely everyone just moves on. Bonus during the 2028 election Vance or whomever can say that Democrats want to ban TikTok.