TikTok Ban Support Down As Trump’s Plans Face Hurdles via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Recent information shows that less Americans enactment banning TikTok.

At the aforesaid time, Democratic lawmakers pass that President Donald Trump’s existent plans whitethorn not beryllium capable to support the level online aft the April 5 deadline.

Public Support For TikTok Ban Weakens

A Pew Research Center survey recovered that 34% of U.S. adults enactment banning TikTok, down from 50% successful March 2023.

Fewer Americans present presumption TikTok arsenic a nationalist information threat, 49% compared to 59% successful May 2023.

Opposition to the prohibition has risen from 22% to 32%, with one-third of Americans undecided. Support for a prohibition is higher among Republicans (39%) than among Democrats (30%).

Only 12% of TikTok users privation a ban, compared to 45% of non-users.

Those successful favour mention information information (83%) and Chinese ownership (75%), portion opponents often constituent to escaped code concerns (74%).

Democrats Challenge Trump’s Approach

On March 24, 3 Democratic senators—Ed Markey (D-MA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), and Cory Booker (D-NJ)—wrote to President Trump to knock however his medication handled the TikTok situation.

They don’t enactment the ban, but they judge Trump’s bid to widen the deadline for selling TikTok by 75 days is “unlawful.” They accidental this determination creates uncertainty astir the platform’s future.

The senators wrote:

“To the grade that you proceed trying to hold the divestment deadline done enforcement orders, immoderate further extensions of the TikTok deadline volition necessitate Oracle, Apple, Google, and different companies to proceed risking ruinous ineligible liability.”

Proposed Solutions & Path Forward

Reports accidental the Trump medication is considering a concern with Oracle. In this arrangement, Oracle would bargain a tiny stock of TikTok and guarantee the information of U.S. idiosyncratic data.

However, critics, including John Moolenaar, the Republican Chair of the House China Select Committee, warn that this program mightiness not fulfill the law’s requirements for a “qualified divestiture.”

Democrats are asking Trump to enactment with Congress alternatively of acting alone.

They person enactment guardant 2 projected solutions:

1. The “Extend the TikTok Deadline Act” would determination the deadline for selling TikTok to October 16, giving much clip to find a solution that meets the law.
2. Changes to the archetypal instrumentality by Congress if Trump wants to spell up with a woody with Oracle.

What’s Next?

The Democratic senators person requested that Trump respond to their questions by March 28.

They privation to cognize whether his medication is considering further extending the deadline, details astir the imaginable Oracle deal, and whether helium believes further legislative enactment is necessary.

As the April 5 deadline approaches, the aboriginal of 1 of the astir influential societal media platforms remains uncertain.

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