The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

Last fall, TikTok was banned for hosting “immoral” and “indecent” videos, but the company was able to assure the Pakistani government that videos would be moderated “in accordance with societal norms and the laws of Pakistan,” and the app resumed operations a week and a half later.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

legislators first started banning TikTok from government devices , but it reached a fever pitch in 2024 when then-President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that would ban TikTok unless it divested from its parent company, ByteDance. Trump even said he would "like Larry [Ellison] to buy it," referring to Oracle chairman.

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TechNode

JANUARY 16, 2025

It also requires TikTok’s cloud service provider, Oracle, to cease hosting its US user data. The Indian government outlawed the app in June 2020, citing worries about data privacy and national security. In October last year, Malaysia stated that TikTok was not fully compliant with its laws.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The administration, which includes the Commerce Department, “took this extraordinary action of prohibiting a popular communication and information-sharing platform without affording its owners … due process of law, and for political reasons rather than because of any ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to the United States,” according to the suit.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

passed its sell-or-ban law last year due to security concerns. Interest is high for the popular short-form video platform and includes heavy hitters like Oracle, Mr. Beast, Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary, Microsoft, and Project Liberty, a group led by former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

That order invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a law that allows Trump to ban transactions between the US and foreign entities. The government likely exceeded IEEPA’s express limitations.”. is fully consistent with law and promotes legitimate national security interests.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Politicians argue that under Chinese law, TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, could be forced to share user data with the Chinese government, posing a hypothetical security risk to U.S. Under the First Amendment, the government can't simply ban speech it doesn't like unless it meets an extremely high constitutional standard.

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APRIL 3, 2025

venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is also in talks to add outside funding to buy out TikTok’s Chinese investors, as part of a bid led by Oracle and other American investors to carve it out of ByteDance, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. law, Reuters reported last month.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 5, 2025

According to The Verge , the new global tariffs imposed on China and dozens of other nations "seemingly torpedoed" plans for candidates — mostly like Oracle — to take over the ByteDance-owned app. A 34 percent tariff imposed on US imports from China obliterated any good faith efforts to negotiate a deal.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Everyone agrees that Oracle and Walmart have bought a combined 20 percent of TikTok. Early Monday, Oracle issued a statement seeming to contradict that. It threatens to disrupt the carefully brokered pact, which could also be blocked by the Chinese government. On Sunday, everyone involved took a well deserved rest.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Governing. ? The move gives ByteDance more time to get approval from authorities in the US and China for a pending deal with Oracle and Walmart. The Chinese government could also nix it. government ban also remains. The biometric check will give Singaporeans access to government and business services. Industry. ?

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Engadget

MARCH 10, 2025

Trump himself has said he would like to see a bidding war for the app and that the US government should own a stake in the company. Under this arrangement, ByteDance would retain a minority stake in the company but Oracle would oversee the app's algorithm, data collection and software updates. Now, Trumps position on Oracle is unclear.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Governing. ? A group of Republican senators led by Marco Rubio is calling on Trump to reject Oracle’s proposed deal with TikTok if the app doesn’t sever ties with ByteDance. “We Oracle pushed Section 230 reform for years, in an effort to harm rivals like Amazon and Google. Adi Robertson / The Verge ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

One is that there are genuine, good-faith reasons to call for Section 230 reform, even though they’re often drowned out by bad tweets that misunderstand the law. Goodman, a law professor at Rutgers University specializing in information policy, approaches the problem from another angle. Governing. ? Makena Kelly / The Verge ).

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 4, 2025

A host of potential owners of the social media site, including Amazon , Oracle, Microsoft, and Project Liberty have come forward. government allowing TikTok's Chinese operators to retain control of the app's algorithm and simply lease it to the U.S. government after the purchase, and want liability protection.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Oracle will also own a minority stake that will be less than 20% of the new global TikTok, two of the people said. Governing. ? Big Tech companies shared the latest from their work with the US government on election integrity. The government has yet to clarify which transactions will be prohibited.

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The Verge

AUGUST 28, 2020

We are confident that a Walmart and Microsoft partnership would meet both the expectations of US TikTok users while satisfying the concerns of US government regulators.”. A deal with Oracle, the enterprise software company, would be more of a data play. Governing. ? TikTok has surprised me with its cleverness before.

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