Tue. 01/21 – TikTok Lives?
Techmeme Ride Home
Brian McCullough
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🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Alright, I’ll sum up everything that happened this weekend with TikTik, but also get to all of the changes the new Trump administration has made, which is relating to tech, in just the past 24 hours. How folks are trying to eat TikTok’s lunch. Should Apple buy Sonos? And the IMDB loses its founder after 25 years.
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Links:
- Trump signs order refusing to enforce TikTok ban for 75 days (The Verge)
- Trump signs executive order to halt TikTok ban, risking legal showdown (Washington Post)
- President Trump signs exec order to make Musk’s DOGE commission more official (TechCrunch)
- Meta announces a new CapCut rival called Edits (TechCrunch)
- Bluesky adds TikTok mode while Elon mulls reviving Vine in the latest banning drama (Windows Central)
- Apple Is Unlikely to Buy Sonos, But Amazon or Spotify Might Consider It (Bloomberg)
- IMDb Founder Col Needham Steps Aside as CEO, COO Nikki Santoro Promoted to Chief Exec (Variety)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tech meme right home for Tuesday, January 21st, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. |
| 0:09.2 | All right, I'll sum up everything that happened this weekend with TikTok, but also get to all of the changes of the new Trump administration has made, which is relating to tech in just the past 24 hours. |
| 0:18.7 | How folks are trying to eat TikTok's lunch, should Apple buy Sonos, |
| 0:22.1 | and the IMDB loses its founder after 25 years? Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. |
| 0:32.5 | So a whole bunch of news to catch you up on, obviously, President Trump signed an executive order |
| 0:37.2 | that pauses the TikTok ban for 75 days to give bite dance more time to reach a bunch of news to catch you up on, obviously. President Trump signed an executive order that |
| 0:37.5 | pauses the TikTok ban for 75 days to give ByteDance more time to reach a deal and provides |
| 0:43.1 | a liability shield to TikTok's providers. More than that in a second. Specifically, though, |
| 0:48.5 | this is an executive order telling the Department of Justice not to enforce the rule. The actual |
| 0:53.5 | law has not been overturned, which |
| 0:55.2 | is kind of important. Quoting the verge, the executive order directs the Attorney General |
| 1:00.4 | not to take any action to enforce the act for a period of 75 days from today to allow my |
| 1:05.6 | administration and opportunity to determine the appropriate course forward in an orderly way, |
| 1:10.5 | end quote. The Attorney General is |
| 1:12.4 | supposed to, quote, issue a letter to each provider, stating that there has been no violation of |
| 1:16.9 | the statute and that there is no liability for any conduct that occurred, end quote. The order |
| 1:22.3 | furthermore instructs the Department of Justice to, quote, take no action to enforce the act |
| 1:26.5 | or impose any penalties against any entity for any noncompliance with the act and says they should be barred |
| 1:32.0 | from doing so, quote, for any conduct that occurred during the above specified period or any |
| 1:36.2 | period prior to the issuance of this order, including the period of time from January 19, |
| 1:40.5 | 2025 to the signing of this order, end quote. You might have noticed that over the weekend, TikTok was down with a legal notice. |
| 1:47.8 | If you tried to go there, then it was back up with a notice thanking President Trump for |
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