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FunWelcome t1_jcemne9 wrote

Reply to comment by cgmcnama in WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Threatens Ban if TikTok’s Chinese Owners Don’t Sell Stakes by TheAngelMutants

  1. A lot of American corporations harvest your data and the American government doesn't really care. When nest got caught doing it no one made a bill to ban them. Amazon even has several products that direct spies on you. We also know about those U.S journalists because byte dance told us and the fired those employees. 2.Bytedance is constantly at odds with the Chinese govt and has refused them before. Which probably won't end well for them. We also learn America doesn't really have one either. WikiLeaks was about how the govt forced corporations to spy on us. The twitter files were about how the govt can force a company to censor a post
  2. Capitalism and we aren't the center of the world. We can't force another country to do things America does.

There is strong evidence to suggest this bill only exists because meta paid politicians to push it. It explains why if you look it up. Byte dance has done everything America wants it to do except sell.

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Secure_Ad1628 t1_jce7goe wrote

Reply to WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Threatens Ban if TikTok’s Chinese Owners Don’t Sell Stakes by TheAngelMutants

I wonder if, after the US bans TikTok (and for the looks of it they will, since both parties agree on this!), other nations will finally adhere to the Chinese method of handling online spaces as another "national border" that needs to be guarded, it looks like we all agree that this is the logical step of any sovereign nation. Maybe not banning foreign apps, like the US and China will, but maybe storing all the data locally is something that all nations will be interested on doing. Or maybe not and it will be limited to banning Chinese shit and nothing else, US aligned countries should follow suit in regards to TikTok but not really care about US apps.

Whatever something that I genuinely believe will happen is blocking any Chinese made app for entering the US led countries, allowing TikTok was clearly a mistake so I doubt they will let something like that to happen ever again.

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CornCobMcGee t1_jce3oj2 wrote

Reply to comment by telestrial in WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Threatens Ban if TikTok’s Chinese Owners Don’t Sell Stakes by TheAngelMutants

>We can’t trust that a person who resides in China isn’t completely and utterly beholden to the CCP’s whims on this.

That's the thing. A Chinese national could be as anti-CCP as they want, but if they own a company, the government has their greasy fingers in the pie, whether said person wants it or not. Every business action has government inclusion by law. Theres no way around it.

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_angryguy_ t1_jcdwygj wrote

Reply to comment by LookAtThatBacon in WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Threatens Ban if TikTok’s Chinese Owners Don’t Sell Stakes by TheAngelMutants

I'll bite, in which a way is china a hostile nation? They do not operate anywhere near as hostile as the US has with the CIA or our industrial war complex. You are buying into state department propaganda. Honestly this move seems to be more about using the state apparatus to remove foreign competition in the tech space and to consolidate it into our in house monopolies. Notice how this is now a discussion of selling assets. I wish they were being honest but hey these are the same people who lied about nukes in Iraq.

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