Nick, we've been hearing the word ban and awful lot lately.

We sure have.

Because the government is threatening to ban a wildly popular social media app.

You know, I've never been on it myself, Hannah.

I don't know if we should advertise that.

Well, lawmakers, on both sides of the aisle in Congress, remain skeptical about the safety

of one of the most popular social media apps in the world.

We're not just talking a social media ban, Andrew.

We're talking about sort of a direct attack on our relationship with China.

TikTok has more than 150 million monthly users in the US alone, but faces growing calls

for it to be banned over fears about China's access to user data.

And every time I hear that word ban, I think to myself, what would that even look like?

Like, how does something like that happen?

Is the government even allowed to do that?

So bans could be theoretically enacted by any number of government actors.

So you could have Congress through the legislative process, take statutory action.

You could also have the executive branch take action.

And that would be typically through the president issuing an executive order or an agency

of the federal government, like the Environmental Protection Agency or the Federal Communications

Commission or the Department of Transportation, issuing a regulation.

We have legislation from Congress, executive orders, regulations from the executive branch,

and then the third possibility is action by a judge by a court.

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