The House approved a bill that calls for China tech giant ByteDance to divest TikTok or the popular social video app will effectively be banned in the U.S.
  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    8 months ago

    Everyone keeps saying “Tik Toc ban,” but this is more of a ByteDance ban. If they want to sell off or spin off the business for markets outside of China, they could 100% do that.

    The product itself is not the problem.

    • Dran@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      8 months ago

      the product itself is not the problem

      well hold on there partner, lets not get crazy with our sweeping claims here.

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      7·
      8 months ago

      China literally does the same shit. You can open up production for sales in China but it has to be majority domestically owned.

      Not saying that I agree with it but it is kind of funny to see tankies whine about this.

    • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub
      61·
      8 months ago

      This.

      Everyone on hexbear is too busy echo-chambering “L liberals” to actually see this for what it is.

      I’m so grateful for my frontal lobe development, without it I would’ve indulged in those conversations and lost additional brain matter trying to argue