Trump signs executive order banning TikTok and the company that owns most of Fortnite

Probably, the power of the executive order is pretty wide. It's supposed to be used only during national emergencies, Trump has been declaring everything as an emergency and pushing things through that way. Most end up being legally challenged and struck down (eg Muslim ban), but it causes massive disruption in the meantime

@plungesponge Thank you for your informed answer. 🌸

@TheSirfurryanimalWales His reasoning is that it's a national emergency because it's a security risk for a foreign social media company to be used. A more cynical view is that a bunch of US teens trolled his Tulsa rally last month, so this is his revenge

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@helenS I'm sure Trump doesn't care , but I wonder if the wider Republican party thinks it's a good idea to cheese off the next generation of voters

@plungesponge Good point!

@plungesponge I didn't see that Fortnight was going to be banned

@Butterflykisses24 I thought the games division was explicitly not effected.

The games division is not affected, but not explicitly. Given the size of Fortnite, it'll only be a matter of time, pretty much all the major companies in China are ending up on the banned entities list one after another. They'll just say the games are siphoning money out of the US into China and need to be locked out.