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Tom Merritt
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Podcaster, coffee achiever

Advertisers are often unafraid to exaggerate and say they’re the best at things they’re not because they believe they can defend themselves in court. But they care all afraid to say Super Bowl or Olympics in an ad for fear of being sued.

Hang in there. You got this.

You’re really smart and talented in ways people don’t always appreciate. You got this.

All Southern California fires are at 100% containment.

This would mean current investors in Bytedance would get voting shares and existing provider of most services gets shars. Almost nothing but who profits would likely change. https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/white-house-talks-have-oracle-us-investors-take-over-tiktok-npr-reports-2025-01-25/

We have plenty of water on the ground and in hoses the problem is wind and not enough water in the air. If the president could sign an executive order mandating a rise in humidity that’d be great.

Thank you Samsung for giving us a break from TikTok news.

The President did not lift the ban or extend the deadline for TikTok. He ordered the Attorney General not to enforce the law for 75 days. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/application-of-protecting-americans-from-foreign-adversary-controlled-applications-act-to-tiktok/

I don’t feel any different

Give someone random the gift of telling them they’re right. Doesn’t matter if they are.

Jan. 18: Day before block on TikTok US distribution: TikTok makes service unavailable.

Jan. 19: Day of the the block on TikTok US distribution: TikTok makes service available.

(Apps blocked from store per law)

Let’s check in on legally what changed between yesterday’s TikTok US outage and today’s restoration.

Nothing.

Back to you Pat.

I was able to post to TikTok on my Pixel but still can’t load anything on iOS. The apps are still unavailable in both Apple and Google Play stores though. TikTok has lifted its self-imposed block but the legal block on distribution is still in place.

TikTok working for Eileen and Inthis morning but kind of broken and not loading more than one video. This is what I would have expected.

“internet hosting service” means a service through which storage and computing resources are provided …for the accommodation and maintenance of 1 or more websites or online services, and which may include file hosting, domain name server hosting, cloud hosting, and virtual private server hosting.

I suppose it’s possible that TikTok can lift its block Monday without the App Store lifting theirs. That could get around the issue of whether the extension is legal. Lots of maneuvering yet to watch.

Apple published a support page about the Bytedance app block https://support.apple.com/en-us/121596

So, TikTok, you DO stop?