Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US
by kube-system on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @11:16AM
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This is not what is proposed, nor is what would happen. Speech protections are very strong in the US and direct censorship of an otherwise legal application is not likely to be a legal possibility.
What the executive does have the authority to do is regulate commerce. The proposal is that ByteDance would be embargoed from doing business in the US. This means, they can't pay for app store developer licenses, sell ads in the US, buy local CDN/cloud infrastructure etc.
You could have the app, but it's not likely that ByteDance would be able to operate it in the US.
Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US
by krick on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @11:21AM
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Well, I won't suggest any scenarios of how it would work right now, even though I don't think it's totally inconceivable... I'll just point out that I don't actually need a loaded gun to make you sell your Rolex for $20. I only need you to believe it's loaded.
Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US
by asdfthvaa2 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @11:22AM
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that doesnt really matter too much.
US advertisers won't be able to pay tiktok. Basically 0 money for bytedance, while plenty of trafic expenses if they keep servicing.
And ofc, apple and google can simply remove the app from your phone.
I'm still not sure how that would work. Sure, they could forbid people from downloading new versions of the app, but the existing app is already out there on phones - would they be able to force removal of the app?