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

• 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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      • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, why not let everyone do it if someone else is already doing it.

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• fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No. It’s a malicious foreign entity.

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