Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, August 7th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough. Today, the President officially signs in order to block

bite dance and TENSant.

Apple confirms the reason why X Cloud and Stadia probably aren't coming to iOS anytime soon.

Uber is now officially more Burrito delivery company than Taxi Company and of course the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech.

Well he went ahead and did it.

President Trump has signed an executive order to block all transactions with

Tik-Tok Maker Bight Dance, as well as all transactions with Chinese Tech Giant Tencent

beginning on September 20th.

Now it's worth noting that September 20th would be five days after Microsoft's deadline to acquire the

non-Chinese parts of Tik-Toc or not.

Quoting the verge.

The spread of apps controlled by the Chinese government continues to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, the order reads,

The United States must take aggressive action against the owners of Tik-Toc to protect our national security."

A parallel order banned transactions with Wii-Chat, a popular texting app in China that

maintains a small user base in the U.S. In both orders the President names the International

Emergency Economic Powers Act as authority for the move, as well as the National

Emergencies Act, effectively naming Tik-Toc's continued operation within the United States

as a national emergency. Such a move is highly unusual and will likely be subject to a legal challenge.

The executive branch has the power to levy sanctions against individuals and corporations by placing them on the entity list as the U.S. did against Huawei and ZTE last year.

But such sanctions are typically put in place by the Commerce

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