Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out
Sami_Uso@lemmy.world 6 months agoWhy not just kill the app then instead of asking for divestment? Why do they still need it?
Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out
Sami_Uso@lemmy.world 6 months agoWhy 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.
Sami_Uso@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Is there precedent for something like this? I’m clearly just a regular dummy but I can’t think of anything similar ever happening in this country. To me, it just seems like a bureaucratic way of strong arming a sale.