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SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 03:47 PM Aug 2020

TikTok and its employees prepare to fight Trump over app ban

https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/nation-world/tik-tok-employees-take-on-trump-administration/507-c45d34ce-98f8-49a2-8e52-7fd184df3d4d

TikTok and its U.S. employees are planning to take President Donald Trump's administration to court over his sweeping order to ban the popular video app, according to a lawyer preparing one of the lawsuits.

The employees' legal challenge to Trump's executive order will be separate from a pending lawsuit from the company that owns the app, though both will argue that the order is unconstitutional, said Mike Godwin, an internet policy lawyer representing the employees.

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TikTok and its employees prepare to fight Trump over app ban (Original Post) SheltieLover Aug 2020 OP
Wait, he cant do that...or wait, can these fascist killers actually do stuff Eliot Rosewater Aug 2020 #1
Right SheltieLover Aug 2020 #3
TikTok Compilation of Sarah Cooper struggle4progress Aug 2020 #2
GOP Nebraska Gov Ricketts just banned Tik Tok from all State devices Budi Aug 2020 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)
1. Wait, he cant do that...or wait, can these fascist killers actually do stuff
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 03:50 PM
Aug 2020

they cant do but they do it daily anyway?

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
4. GOP Nebraska Gov Ricketts just banned Tik Tok from all State devices
Thu Aug 13, 2020, 04:00 PM
Aug 2020

LINCOLN, Neb. —
The state of Nebraska moves to block the app TikTok from all state electronic devices.

In a release Wednesday morning, Gov. Pete Ricketts cited "security concerns."
....


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ketv.com/amp/article/governor-of-nebraska-to-ban-tiktok-from-state-electronic-devices/33584403


If he had the authority, he'd bow to Trump & ban it across the board.

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