Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users

Alpha71@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is it a private business if it’s owned by the Chinese government?

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  • Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s really not though? The Chinese government has a 1% stake in ByteDance. Meanwhile ~60% is foreign investors – believed to be mostly American.

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    • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You have a misunderstanding of how China’s government operates. It does not matter how much stake the government holds, companies just cannot say no to the government’s request. Otherwise you will be disappeared. See Alibaba for example.

      Remember, China does not have a democracy.

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      • Crikeste@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ooooof, somebody licking the boot of capitalism a little too hard.

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      • ferralcat@monyet.cc ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s literally the same thing the us government is doing here…

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    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then it should be easy to buy out that 1% stake.

      I’m not saying it’s a good bill, but reducing interference by foreign governments in US sold products is not against any party’s philosophies.

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    • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you think that They could avoid doing something that the Chinese government tells them to do?

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      • BreakDecks@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You mean like how US ISPs wiretapped the Internet for the NSA? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

        But really, how dare anyone but us do that.

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  • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No. It’s a malicious foreign entity.

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• PilferJynx@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They don’t. It’s all bad faith to get what they want - control.

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  • whereisk@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Government is bad except when it comes to brutal subjugation of out-groups I don’t like, while the in-group gets protected and treated with kid gloves by the same.

    Unfortunately most of them are the dupes not the protected class they think they are - “they’re hurting the wrong people” summed it up when it was uttered…

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    • retrieval4558@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Too lazy to look up who said it, but there’s a quote I like that goes something like “conservative seeks to have an in group who the law protects but does not bind, and an outgroup who the law binds but not protects”

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• Dra@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Foreign policy

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