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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by MattGaiser on Friday August 07, 2020 @04:40AM (#24079737)
I suspect the ban will just be on the monetization. So they can keep TikTok and WeChat, but will not be able to profit from them.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by JulianMorrison on Friday August 07, 2020 @06:30AM (#24080397)
It's pretty ridiculous to claim that "you can exist, but not do business" is anything other than a ban. What are they supposed to do, panhandle?
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by MattGaiser on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:22AM (#24082849)
It makes it clearly a business conflict, not a free speech one.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by JulianMorrison on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:16AM (#24107528)
That's a false dichotomy - it's a third thing: nakedly political posturing.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by 9nGQluzmnq3M on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:23AM (#24080007)
The order seems sufficiently broadly worded to ban ads on either platform, hosting them in the US, etc.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by onetimemanytime on Friday August 07, 2020 @06:38AM (#24080441)
They have 45 days to agree on something, and that will determine "transactions" in this case. Pure pressure.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by modo_mario on Friday August 07, 2020 @07:13AM (#24080644)
Trump's set an ultimatum whereby tiktok's American operations will have to be sold to Microsoft or it gets banned.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by est on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:35AM (#24080093)
Monetization is also the reason China banned every US Internet service.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by powerapple on Friday August 07, 2020 @06:59AM (#24080570)
Funny enough, it is not. Of course, one of the reason Google got banned was because Baidu, its competitor watches it all the time, and every time it is not following the law, Baidu will file a complaint for it. Foreign businesses make good money in China.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by yorwba on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:45AM (#24080167)
Google is still selling ads in China, so monetization doesn't appear to be considered problematic.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by est on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:57AM (#24080224)
> Google is still selling ads in China,

More like Google is selling ads outside China for Chinese companies.

Google Ads market share in China is really small.

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