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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by syshum on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:21PM (#23838084)
>>If US banned TikTok

Any attempt to ban it to the wider public would be immediately be met with a legal battle that the US government would lose as there is no legal way for them to implement such a ban, our constitution would forbid it

At most they could bar employees of the federal government (and its contractors) from using it, which given the federal government is one of the largest would have a large impact. Even that limited action however would be met with a large legal challenge and would have a good chance of failure for anything that is not a Government Computer / Phone / Network

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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by ralph84 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:41PM (#23838319)
> our constitution would forbid it

[Citation needed]

On the contrary, the US constitution specifically permits regulation of international trade as an enumerated power. All the US government needs to do is put ByteDance on the same entity list they put ZTE and Huawei on and Apple and Google would have no choice but to pull TikTok from their app stores.

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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by arrosenberg on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:25PM (#23838118)
> Any attempt to ban it to the wider public would be immediately be met with a legal battle that the US government would lose as there is no legal way for them to implement such a ban, our constitution would forbid it

"National Security"

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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by parliament32 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:27PM (#23838147)
All they need to do is poke the Play Store / App Store the right way and, poof, it's gone. They don't need to legally ban it, just send a strongly worded letter.
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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by syshum on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:34PM (#23838225)
Well given that Google is anti-trump I am sure they would not simply do what Trump says.

Now if Biden was elected I am sure it would be different

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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by axlee on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:26PM (#23839807)
The US bans french cheeses and Kinder eggs, I am pretty sure they can ban a chinese spyware.
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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by blackrock on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @06:08PM (#23838606)
It’s called an “Executive Order”.

This will bypass the constitution every time. It’s how the president takes a dump on the constitution.

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