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speak easy

(10,704 posts)
Sun Dec 15, 2024, 12:59 PM Dec 15

ByteDance cannot divest TikTok

because the IP is subject to Chinese export controls, and the CCP has been quite clear that they will not grant an export permit, if only to embarrass the United States.

So if TikTok is withdrawn / banned from U.S. App stores, while still available in the EU / UK / Canada / Mexico etc. what is next for U.S. pretensions about free speech?

For the record, I have never believed thatRepublicans are fretting about national security here, it is more the a 'liberal' bias on the platform.

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Sympthsical

(10,404 posts)
1. The vote to ban it passed overwhelmingly. President Biden signed it.
Sun Dec 15, 2024, 01:06 PM
Dec 15

Something like 380-60 in the House and 79-19 in the Senate. Biden's administration argued that it being subject to CCP controls was a problem.

So this was a pretty bipartisan endeavor.

I dunno what this is going to look like. Pissed off Gen Z'ers incoming.

Tetrachloride

(8,486 posts)
2. Supply and demand.
Sun Dec 15, 2024, 01:10 PM
Dec 15

Squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like the bucket.

themaguffin

(4,232 posts)
3. I'm happy for the ban/forced sale as China fucks our tech companies. blocks them, censors them, steals from them...
Sun Dec 15, 2024, 01:11 PM
Dec 15

Fuck them.

ProfessorGAC

(70,625 posts)
5. Can't Get Too Worked Up About This
Sun Dec 15, 2024, 01:36 PM
Dec 15

I don't see TikTok as an essential industry for the US.
There are alternatives; people will adjust.
Lots of angry 14 year-olds, to be sure. But, m'eh!

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