[Consolidated] US House bill would force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face ban from app stores

[niwde7]

Well you know that China has imposed rules so draconian that Google and Facebook are till now still not there?

Or when PSA got into China to invest, build and manage ports, they had to adhere to local laws and take only minority stakes because ports are infrastructure critical to security?

Or the Great Firewall of China keeps out so many websites it does not want its citizens to access?

Or that there are quotas and strict censorship requirements on foreign films being screened there?

Or that there are days Tesla cars can't be on certain roads?

He who lives in a glass house should not throw rocks.

Lol.


Well Mr neutral @kelhot2001 we didn't hear you make a noise when China banned Teslas or iphones for govt officials. US regulations and laws are just behind the curve here and there's not enough fawning over. Bye bye BYD. Comes with the off-chance what Biden really means is Chinese EV's are a threat to US auto workers and their unions.


More commie than commie.

 

[sunnyisandsingapore]

insta is not as important to facebook as facebook. And different crowd la insta and tiktok. Tiktok is a lot more important than insta to current gen

I find more siao lang users and content on TikTok than other social media. Uninstalling that silly useless app is the best for my phone and I see my IQ regaining back to normal healthy level.

 

[Zinna]

Cause Mark banned him from facebook ma. So must take revenge
Though also agree with him that social media is a big threat. But too late liao

 

[2_sillies_trap]

told you all already what, 得tiktok者，得天下。

he had his chan when he was presideng but fails to bring it into the republican folds. now bidens will use tiktok to win the 2024 US elections, this ish their matriarchal destiny, 挡不了的咯。

 

[Oxygenatedwater]

Song bo tikcrap

 

[buttbERry]

getting very serious sia

 

[pwongkk]

I believe a lot small biz owners in US uses TT to promote their products and services on TT. Some of them said banning TT means their biz will up lorry.

The biz owners abandoned Fb?

 

[AndroidComa]

out of USA and India
i think tiktok maybe just close shop sua

 

[mooseolly]

According to fellow edmwers this is not a ban. US own country own rule for a foreign company to sell Tik Tok and if the company never comply will have consequences.

Just like China did not ban foreign apps like Facebook, X, Instagram, youtube etc.

 

[buttbERry]

thats a lot of users

 

[Hyruga]

I dun think that was really the issue. The issue was they were adamant on banning TT in the 1st place, the entire hearing was literally much a show to enable proceeding to this ban voting.

Even if he kneel down and say sorry also not gonna change the their idea that all chinese = sleeper spy for China and must be eliminated from their system.

It still matters.

If chew had been more humble, maybe the bill will take longer to pass or more of the representatives would vote for TikTok to stay, leading to more discussions.

Now it's a one sided victory. Not much hope for bytedance at the moment except to divest.

 

[PaboJames]

Good ban, 2/3 majority voted yes to push through the bill successfully!

Not sure what is the point of the bill.

Supposedly the entity is sold to a USA Investor, then continue to operate.... Suddenly all the social harm disappeared?

 

[MoeLanYong]

Why ah?

AMDK?

Edit:

Replace "China" with rest of the world

 

[elevate]

Have U been to Cina? Or heard of the Great Firewall?

 

[mewmew]

means justice ish only skin deep

 

[AndroidComa]

meta
collect data from china chinese?
r u from USA?

 

[swenson]

meta can work in china?

 

[Forever84]

Two of the biggest companies in US today are Facebook and Google.

both running online advertising

do u think they wan a China company to be that one day?

 

[AuraKUPO]

Meta collect for ads purposes to push the right ads that you are interested. I can't say so about TT

 

[NoPurposeInLife]

What you saying? Cheena already banned AMDK apps many many years ago that's why there're all the amdk clones like renren, etc...