https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200918/09294145334/details-unconstitutional-wechat-tiktok-ban-actually-would-make-users-those-apps-less-secure-not-more.shtml

This morning the Commerce Department released the details of how the WeChat and TikTok bans will work. It's possible that the ban on TikTok will get lifted if Treasury Secretary Mnuchin can convince enough people in the administration to buy into the grifty Oracle non-sale, but the WeChat ban is happening no matter what.

The details reinforce two key points:

The excuses about national security are utter and total garbage, because this would actually make users of those apps significantly less secure.

So, great. We have some applications bans, premised on national security, that are unconstitutional piles of garbage that make people less secure, and the only possible path out is through a grifty deal, pushed deliberately to a large donor to the President, who has said multiple times he's hoping for a kickback on the deal. We're witnessing an astounding bit of corruption right here.