Guntrigger@sopuli.xyztoTechnology@lemmy.world•Was the whole TikTok drama a bait-and-switch to make Trump look good?English
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2 days agoWhich part of Trump proposing, implementing and then yesterday delaying the ban was down to Democrat incompetence?
Thanks, I’ll field this extremely easy question - By executive order before it was a bipartisan bill supported by every level of government:
In 2020, President Donald Trump proposed a ban of the app as he viewed it as a national security threat. In August, he signed an executive order instructing that ByteDance divest from the app, though the order was blocked by a court injunction in September and was reversed by the Biden administration in 2021.
To me, making sure that everyone agrees with a new policy before it becomes law, and sending it through the proper channels to be debated and then enacted, doesn’t really seem like a dumb thing.
The dumb thing would be to propose a new law, enact it unilaterally, have it revoked because it was enacted unilaterally, then have everyone agree on it anyway when you pass it through the proper channels, then toss it in the trash yourself at literally the first opportunity.