Re:TikTok to Sue U.S. over Ban
by onetimemanytime on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @05:42AM
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so if Huawei offers everyone in America free Alexa-like speakers, USA should do nothing? Or if they give free routers to major infrastructure companies..?
Precisely, except businesses are not individuals and as such they don't enjoy the same rights. An ISPs business license can be taken away from it for using huawei because the government has the authority to regulate commerce. They cannot however ban individuals at those companies from receiving or sending information to huawei.
Americans can mount free 4k cameras with hd audio in everyroom in their house that streams directly to china snd they cannot be stopped from doing so based on the fact that the government does not approve of the information being transmitted.
They could make proper privacy laws. If both Alexa speakers and Huawei speakers have to respect your privacy and both are banned for failing to do so you sidestep a lot of the issues
They can ban the speakers from being imported but they can't ban americans from transmiting content to huawei
Re:TikTok to Sue U.S. over Ban
by onetimemanytime on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @06:49AM
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Let's step back for a second: Amazon wants to know what you said to sell you x brand of corn flakes or toothpaste.
What does China want to know from millions of Americans that work in engineering, military, universities, politics? See the difference. Like China cares that its company was fined by FTC for $25 million for not respecting privacy
Your courts and congress will decide if he stepped over the line. But if they fail to do so, you lose a ton of rights. He then gets to ban "antifa" apps and democrats get to ban "alt right" russian apps. A supreme court precedent can't be challenged in court when they apply the same logic for something else. This isn't about tik tok, this is about every other app the US government can't controp or arm twist because they are not based on the US.