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Re:TikTok to be banned from US app stores from Sunday by pwinnski on Friday September 18, 2020 @11:07AM (#24517708)
On Monday, will you be able to download TikTok in the USA? If not, how is that not an issue of liberty?

You may be willing to give up liberty in exchange for some leveling of economic advantage, but you cannot also say that you are not, in fact, giving up that measure of liberty.

I don't actually use TikTok, btw.

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Re:TikTok to be banned from US app stores from Sunday by JumpCrisscross on Friday September 18, 2020 @12:19PM (#24518687)
If we recognize the government's ability to enact boycotts and sanctions, we must recognize its ability to ban foreign companies with connections to adversaries. If we reject the former, we have to make an argument that incorporates its centuries of precedent. (In the United States. Millenia, more generally.)
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