Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Trump Signals Opposition

Re:Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Tr... by throwaway5752 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @07:30PM (#24024854)

Whatever is wrong with China, and there is plenty, the US and particularly the president's behavior is dictatorial here.

Perhaps the administration could outline the new intel that has come to light in the last month that has made this such an urgent issue right now, as opposed to any other time in the past year.

Otherwise, as a layman, I might think that the humiliating "million ticket reservation" prank of the president's Tulsa, OK rally that adolescents orchestrated on TikTok is what triggered it.

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Re:Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Tr... by dencodev on Saturday August 01, 2020 @08:03PM (#24025071)

It's well within the rights of the president to negotiate these matters, and congress has increasingly over the decades encouraged it:

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44707.pdf

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Re:Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Tr... by saagarjha on Saturday August 01, 2020 @08:31PM (#24025227)

Has there been tariffs in the past levied against specific companies?

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Re:Microsoft and Bytedance Put TikTok Talks on Hold After Tr... by throwaway5752 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @09:42PM (#24025594)

I don't disagree with you. I think we've all found that a lot of the structure of US society and government have assumed non-malicious and non-criminal actors past a certain point. Frankly, I think the system assumes a capable enough public to elect competent and decent people, and should that ever fail there is nothing really worth saving, anyway.

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