Trump confirms further delay to TikTok ban or sale deadline”
– and I’m still just scrolling. A few years ago, I stumbled into a situation I
never saw coming. I was supposed to be writing a report for work, but instead I
found myself watching a guy deep-fry a whole shoe on TikTok. Not even kidding.
One minute it was a quiet Tuesday morning, and the next I was 42 videos deep
into the For You page, watching people dance, bake, rant, and cry. That app?
It’s chaos. But it’s kind of beautiful chaos. So when I heard that Trump
confirmed yet another delay to the TikTok ban or sale deadline, my first
thought was:
Wait, that’s still happening?* Honestly, I’d forgotten. Maybe
because this whole TikTok saga has felt like background noise—like a TV on in
the next room. You hear the drama, but you’re not really tuned in unless
someone yells. Let’s rewind for a sec. This whole TikTok thing? It’s been
dragging on for what feels like forever. Trump first called it a national
security threat back in 2020 (which, I mean, *maybe?* but also... have you
*been* on Facebook lately?). Then came all the talk of banning the app or
forcing its sale to a U.S. company. Then delays. Then more delays. And now here
we are—June 2025—and the can’s been kicked even further down the road. I get
the concern. TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company, and there’s been
a lot of talk about data, surveillance, influence, and so on. I’m not a
cybersecurity expert, so I won’t pretend to know the full story. But I do know
that half the people I follow are just trying to share DIY hacks or rant about
their exes. I’m not sure how much of a national threat that really is. (Unless
oversharing is suddenly considered espionage. In that case, we’re all in
trouble.) What is clear is that this whole situation is a weird mashup of
politics, tech, and culture wars. And we’re all kind of just watching it unfold
while trying to decide if we should finally delete the app or not. Personally?
I still have it. I keep telling myself I’ll take a break, but then someone
sends me a video of a cat wearing sunglasses and boom—another 20 minutes gone.
The delay, as I understand it, is partly because negotiations are still
“ongoing” (whatever that means), and partly because banning an app used by 170+
million Americans isn’t exactly a smooth process. There’s legal stuff.
Lobbying.
Public backlash. Not to mention the whole free speech thing—it’s kind
of hard to ignore. And here’s the thing that keeps nagging at me: if this ban
or sale ever does happen, what does it say about our digital freedom? Are we
okay with the government pulling the plug on something just because it’s
inconvenient? Or because it feels “un-American”? I don’t have a clear answer.
Maybe it is dangerous. Or maybe it’s just another way to control what we see,
post, and share. In the meantime, TikTok’s still up and running. People are
still dancing in grocery stores.
Someone’s probably making a sandwich tutorial
right now that’ll go viral by sunset. And I’m still out here debating if I
should finally clean out my camera roll or just keep watching videos I’ll never
recreate. Honestly, I don’t know how this all ends. Maybe TikTok gets sold.
Maybe it gets banned. Or maybe we just keep hitting snooze on the issue,
pretending it’ll resolve itself. But here’s the question I keep circling back
to: When a platform becomes this woven into everyday life, is it even possible
to truly “ban” it? And if we do, what takes its place? Just something to think
about—right after I finish this TikTok about a raccoon playing the piano.
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