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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by realusername on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:29PM (#24025831)
> The problem here isn't TikTok being banned. I couldn't care less about TikTok. The problem here is singling out an individual entity for punishment outside an established framework of laws just because we don't like it. You can be tough on China without becoming China.

Even without talking about morality or Chinese laws, TikTok could just be banned as trade retaliation. It's very common outside of tech, if a country closes down their market, they generally face retaliation on their foreign markets.

But yes I do agree with you on that, it should be done using an official retaliation policy, not just tweeted by the US president...

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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by mike00632 on Monday August 03, 2020 @01:54AM (#24034602)
Trade retaliation is generally executed on commodities that are already unfairly subsidized by the opposing nation. I'm thinking of disputes over tires, steel, pork, beef, corn. Banning a service company that seems to have done nothing wrong as a means of tit-for-tat retaliation is different.
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