Appeals court upholds TikTok ban law
Appeals court upholds TikTok ban law
Again. Not a TikTok ban law. A ByteDance ban law.
ByteDance could sell their stake, and TikTok would be just fine in the US.such a silly semantic statement
TikTok exists in its current manifestation because it is managed by ByteDance
If you sold TikTok to an American company it would immediately change into a different entity.
If we're gonna play word games I'd call it a "anti-foreign social media ban"
now i'll ask a question
are they banning it because it's competition for our social media companies? so is this an economic anti-china policy designed to protect american company interests?
or are they banning it because right now TikTok is one of the larger social media platforms and it's the only one that doesn't have to bow down to the DOJ or DOD? i don't think it's a coincidence they're banning the platform with some of the loudest leftist anti-government voices
I don't buy the national security angle one bit. It's like pretending the PATRIOT Act was to protect kids. It's a veneer. Scratch off the surface and you realize if China wanted data on Americans, they can just buy it legally and cheaply from American data brokers
It's not a semantic argument at all. It may be nuanced for some, but it is a vital, material difference.
First. You can't know if it will substantially change under new management. That's speculation
They aren't banning ByteDance do to it being competition with domestic platforms. If that were the case the ban would be for TikTok directly. One example for it being a material difference.
Second. Yes. The fact that they are at least partly beyond our justice and regulatory system, is part of the reason for the ban. But it's only a real concern because...
Third. They can and have already been shown to subtly manipulate the algorithm to artificially elevate China's image.
It's got absolutely nothing to do with China collecting data on Americans. As you said that's laughable on the face of it.