• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Well the Senate killed the earlier bill. There’s a decent chance they pass the Ukraine/Israel aid bill without this amendment. It would then be stricken in reconciliation. Unfortunately there’s also a decent chance the Senate passes it because this version probably fixes things the Senators had problems with.

    If it does get passed there’s a very good chance there’s a court order to prevent anything until the courts rule on the constitutionality of the law. If Bytedance loses that there’s zero chance they sell though. The US market is not big enough for them to jettison an international company.

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      8 months ago

      Why are you cheerleading for TikTok to remain in the hands of a US adversary, during the same week when said adversary forced a US company to abjectly ban US-based messaging apps?

      Retaliation. Tit for tit.

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        8 months ago

        If the government can just point at a company and force a fire sale then there is no market, there is no order, there is no financial industry. This is an incredibly dangerous law.

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          8 months ago

          The alternative is to outright ban it. Tik Tok is a cancer directly controlled by a hostile nation state. The government absolutely has the right to block foreign interference like this.

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            8 months ago

            Pray tell how is this any worse than Facebook? Is the CCP in the Los Angeles TikTok office moderating content?

            Or is this just more bullshit invented on the spot to justify an unconstitutional power grab?

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              8 months ago

              Facebook isn’t under an obligation to provide America’s data directly to the government of a hostile foreign power. Tiktok is

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                    8 months ago

                    Bytedance owning a stake in TikTok does not mean they can require TikTok to share data. Especially if we made a common sense law to protect data saying it’s not allowed to leave the country.

                    Oh wait, that’s already a thing. And we just let Meta and the other data vendors keep doing it.