Trump issues an executive order to suspend the US TikTok ban. But can it stick?

Gus Hurwitz January 20, 2025

Gus Hurwitz, director of law and economics programs at ICLE, contributed to this Associated Press article about President Trump’s executive order to suspend the TikTok ban. Read the full story here.

Despite the intense scrutiny and potential costs involved, the machinations over TikTok are in some ways just business as usual for the tech companies involved, according to Gus Hurwitz, a legal scholar with the International Center for Law and Economics.

“The fines that we’re talking about are civil penalties and companies risk civil penalties all the time,” Hurwitz said.