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The TikTok Ban’s Third Snooze Button Proves It Was Always Bullshit
Remember when TikTok was supposedly an urgent national security threat that required emergency legislation? Funny how that “emergency” keeps getting 75-day extensions. Trump is reported…
Trump is reportedly about to hit the snooze button on TikTok enforcement for the third time, extending a deadline that was supposedly so urgent that Congress had to rush through legislation ignoring basic First Amendment protections. With a mid-June deadline approaching and trade talks with China in limbo, Trump is expected to sign an executive order staving off enforcement of a law banning or forcing the sale of the app, according to people familiar with his plan. The TikTok saga has become a perfect case study in how moral panics work: manufacture urgency, rush through bad legislation, then quietly let it fade when the political winds shift.
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