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.
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.