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@ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

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

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

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@ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago
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Lawmaker: TikTok must "sever relationship with the Chinese Communist Party."
  • @Alpha71@lemmy.world
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    27•1 year ago

    Sooo… How do Republican’s square being the party of “Small Govt” and then interfering in a private business?

    • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      28•1 year ago

      Is it a private business if it’s owned by the Chinese government?

      • @Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        8•1 year 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.

        • @nialv7@lemmy.world
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          9•1 year 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.

          • @Crikeste@lemm.ee
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            -10•1 year ago

            Ooooof, somebody licking the boot of capitalism a little too hard.

        • @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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          8•1 year 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.

        • @PriorityMotif@lemmy.world
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          3•1 year ago

          deleted by creator

          • BreakDecks
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            3•1 year ago

            You mean like how US ISPs wiretapped the Internet for the NSA? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

            But really, how dare anyone but us do that.

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      • @fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee
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        1•1 year ago

        No. It’s a malicious foreign entity.

    • @PilferJynx@lemmy.world
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      14•1 year ago

      They don’t. It’s all bad faith to get what they want - control.

      • @whereisk@lemmy.world
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        8•1 year ago

        Government is bad except when it comes to brutal subjugation of out-groups I don’t like, while the in-group gets protected and treated with kid gloves by the same.

        Unfortunately most of them are the dupes not the protected class they think they are - “they’re hurting the wrong people” summed it up when it was uttered…

    • @Dra@lemmy.zip
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      4•1 year ago

      Foreign policy

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