Nick, we've been hearing the word ban an 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 it could be the beginning of the end for

Tik-Tok. Today the House of Representatives passed a bill that could ban the popular app. Members of Congress on both sides of the

aisle worry that Tik-Tok poses a national security threat because it's owned by a

company based in China. This is not an attempt to ban

Tic-Toc.

It's attempt to make Tic-Toc better.

Tic-Tac-Tow.

A winner.

A winner.

To silence this large massive voice is frankly an American. And every time I hear that word, ban, I think to myself, what would that even look like? How does something like that

happen? Is the government even allowed to do it.

And what are the different ways they could get it done?

So bands 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.

So you have legislation from Congress, executive orders, regulations from the executive branch,

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

All right so in other words you can ban stuff.

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