Trump admin puts a hold on TikTok ban it seems to have forgotten about

Enlarge / TikTok's US fate is up in the air, but at least you can still download and patch it. (credit: SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images)

The Department of Commerce has put a stay on enforcing an executive order that would have forced popular short-form video app TikTok to suspend all US operations as of midnight tonight. This is a tacit admission that the proposed ban isn't actually particularly important to the administration any longer.

Commerce said the orders against TikTok are on hold "pending further legal developments" in multiple lawsuits, The Wall Street Journal reports.

President Donald Trump earlier this year signed two executive orders relating to TikTok. The first, on August 7, declared the app to be a national emergency. A second (PDF), issued one week later, gave ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, 90 days to divest the app to a US owner.

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