Trumps ehemaliger FCC-Chef Ajit Pai fordert den Obersten Gerichtshof auf, das TikTok-Verbot aufrechtzuerhalten | Trumps früherer FCC-Chef entfernt sich in dieser Frage vom gewählten Präsidenten.

https://gizmodo.com/ajit-pai-asks-supreme-court-to-uphold-tiktok-ban-2000544379

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  1. From the article: Ajit Pai, the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission during Donald Trump’s first term, is splitting from his old boss and encouraging the Supreme Court to allow a ban on TikTok to move forward. [According](https://www.businessinsider.com/ajit-pai-tiktok-ban-law-huawei-supreme-court-trump-2024-12) to Business Insider, Pai and former Department of Treasury official Thomas Feddo filed a brief last week encouraging the justices to uphold the law that would banish TikTok’s operation within US borders despite Trump’s push to stop the ban.

    Pai’s primary argument is that there is existing legal precedent to support the legality of the law, passed by Congress last year that would require TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to sell the platform or cease operations in the US. That precedent: Pai’s own crackdown on Chinese companies.

    Back when Pai was head of the FCC, he designated two companies headquartered in China as [national security threats](https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/doc-365255a1.pdf). The agency banned cellular providers from using government subsidies to purchase telecom equipment from manufacturers Huawei and ZTE, on the grounds that those companies could be collaborating with the Chinese government to spy on Americans—a concern that was at least in part backed up by findings from journalists and the intelligence community.

    Pai called the approach taken to restrict apps like TikTok in the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act “extremely similar” to his own efforts to tackle Chinese telecom equipment providers, noting “Congress and the Executive Branch have routinely identified in legislation or regulation specific companies under China’s control that pose particular national security risk.”

  2. Stolehtreb on

    I don’t even care that he’s suddenly deciding to oppose the president elect. Ajit Pai can fuck right off. Never a person worse at the job.

  3. One of DJT’s donors, Jeff Yass, is a major shareholder of TikTok. Trump trying to interfere here is to protect his buddy’s investment and completely disregard the courts decisions and the safety of Americans. Trump does not care about America, he cares about his wallet. He’s the ultimate fraudster who tricked millions into thinking that he is what they need – a failed businessman and game show host celebrity whose own professors and cabinet members called him the dumbest person alive. Between Musk, Tucker Carlson, Trump, and a whole slew of GOP members, come January 20th, Russia is in the White House.

  4. I think this is indicative of what we’ll see from trump during this entire term. There seems to be a consensus that tiktok is bad for its target audience and bad for national security, but trump doesn’t care because it might, maybe, make him some money to keep it available in the states.

    Putting personal monetary gain ahead of the best interest of the country is the opposite of what good leaders do.

  5. He’s interfering with money being made. He’ll be gone soon. You’re either part of the grift or you’re out. This dumb shit thinks he’s there to serve? Foolish boy no dude you’re there to skim off the top. Get with the program

  6. skitarii_riot on

    Never attribute to principles what can be explained by donors.

  7. SplendidPunkinButter on

    I went for such a long time without hearing this asshole’s name. It was beautiful

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