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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by innagadadavida on Sunday August 02, 2020 @02:39AM (#24026807)
There really is no guarantee these things won’t happen to those companies - just like how there is no guarantee that CCP won’t have HKers or Uighurs or Tibet. You just have to be mindful of the authority of nations and hope you don’t get unlucky.

This one of the better/saner things this administration has done, if anything, these should have been accelerated to avoid another USSR style Cold War with China.

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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by albacur on Sunday August 02, 2020 @04:21AM (#24027230)
There actually is a guarantee by the Supreme Court that SAP, Volkswagen, and Sony are entitled to due process, because they are independent entities that don't operate as extensions of a foreign government.

The same is might be true of ByteDance as well. It's not actually clear that Trump has the authority to ban TikTok. It could just be more bluster.

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