The bill is worded so vaguely, it could be applied to anything. This is a massive overreach and the fact that you aren’t concerned is alarming. You just don’t give a fuck bc you don’t like TikTok, but this isn’t just about TikTok.
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EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 6 months agoThe Tik Tok ban is about keeping big tech out of the hand of enemy nation states.
In doing so, yes they have also kept it in the hands of the USA.
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Sami_Uso@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Why not just kill the app then instead of asking for divestment? Why do they still need it?
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What do you mean kill the app? The US government doesn’t have the authority to kill the app. That isn’t one of the options in the table.
And why does who need it? Who is this “they” you’re referring to?
Sami_Uso@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I assume the US government wants to force a sale to a US tech company, no? Who would presumably profit from said successful app. Why not just outright ban it here? By kill I just mean make unusable. But you knew that, silly.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thats one of the options ByteDance has. The US government can’t force a company in a different sovereign nation to sell anything. ByteDance has two options, their app is banned in the US, or they have the opportunity to sell it to a U.S. company. That’s up to ByteDance and the CCP, not the U.S. government.