Commerce Department Remembers It Was Supposed To Ban TikTok; Says It Won't Enforce For Now
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201112/23585745702/commerce-department-remembers-it-was-supposed-to-ban-tiktok-says-it-wont-enforce-now.shtml
Yesterday we noted that TikTok had made a filing with the government asking what the fuck was going on with the supposed ban on their application that was supposed to go into effect this week. While a court had issued an injunction saying the Commerce Department couldn't put the ban into effect, the Trump administration basically hadn't said anything since then, and the ban was set to go into effect yesterday.
Late yesterday, the Commerce Department put out a notice basically saying that it's complying with the injunction issued by the court, and therefore not implementing the executive order and the ban: