[jbombadil]

My understanding is that the law doesn’t ban TikTok. The law gives the president the power to ban TikTok. So the president can elect not to use said power.

[yobid20]

The law quite clearly states bytedance aka tiktok so yea tiktok is 100% banned and the penalty is massive fines that would essentially bankrupt them.

[sethammons]

The law quite clearly says it is the president's call. It is a new presidential power.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521...

[mwigdahl]

It is the President’s call for any _additional_ applications. It is not his call for TikTok or any other ByteDance applications.

[benmmurphy]

if the law explicitly says bytedance and there is no way for bytedance to avoid it then its a bill of attainder and unconstitutional. presumably, they have worded the law in a way that avoids this for example by letting the president remove bytedance for being in violation if he considers them no longer in violation.