Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal

Re:Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal by est on Monday August 03, 2020 @10:58PM (#24046087)

1. TikTok is actually not cooperating with the Chinese gov't (and maybe this is the CCP's way of showing them that it goes both ways).

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/technology/china-toutiao-...

> The country’s top media regulator on Tuesday ordered the company, Bytedance, to shut down its app for sharing jokes and silly videos. Vulgar content on the Neihan Duanzi app had “caused strong dislike among internet users,” a brief notice from the State Administration of Radio and Television said. The company was told to clean up its other platforms, too.

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Re:Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal by mola on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @01:36AM (#24046977)

This is called being law abiding.

I'm pretty sure that when OP talked about cooperating with Chinese govt. He was talking about what is hinted by trump, that they are doing massive clendestine surveillance on US citizens on behalf of CCP.

(Which incidentally, we now know that some US companies are doing exactly that for the US govt.)

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