Re:TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer to leave the company
by rapsey on Thursday August 27, 2020 @03:29AM
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The US must be viewed as an empire not just any country. If the empire sees something as a threat, it will find legal justifications for doing anything and it will absolutely make distinctions between local corporations or ones with too many ties to rival geopolitical states.
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Re:TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer to leave the company
by unishark on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:36AM
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Pretty much every country does that. Look at IP disputes where courts constantly find for their own country's company, often to the point of making new law at the supreme court level to do it.
What does that have to do with empires? An empire rules over others, while any country will take care of its own.
Re:TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer to leave the company
by rapsey on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:56AM
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> Pretty much every country does that.
The smart ones do.
While TikTok is more domestic. Huawei is definitely viewed as an empire threat and the US is acting way beyond what other countries are doing.
Re:TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer to leave the company
by bilbo0s on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:09AM
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This is the US, we've even threatened companies if they have too many ties to a rival political party. Let alone a rival political state. It's just the reality of the environment here in the US.