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Re:Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads fro... by bduerst on Sunday September 27, 2020 @10:11PM (#24612269)
Bytedance is not owned by the Chinese government. It's an independent company, as is TikTok.
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Re:Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads fro... by jjulius on Sunday September 27, 2020 @10:40PM (#24612432)
> As with many Chinese companies, the company has an internal Chinese Communist Party committee serving the party members among the employees, with vice president Zhang Fuping serving as its Party Committee Secretary. It also has a strategic partnership with the Ministry of Public Security for the ministry's public relations efforts, and joint ventures with a state-run publisher in Beijing and media firm in Shanghai. ... It has garnered public attention over allegations that it worked with the Chinese Communist Party to censor and surveil content pertaining to Xinjiang re-education camps and other topics the Party deemed controversial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance

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Re:Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads fro... by bduerst on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:52AM (#24624254)
Yes, for their TaoTiao subsidiary, not TikTok.

It says right there in your link that Bytedance is legally a Cayman's Islands company.

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Re:Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads fro... by Dahoon on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:14AM (#24613199)
Wikipedia is not a good source one way or the other.
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Re:Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads fro... by Cthulhu_ on Monday September 28, 2020 @02:53AM (#24613686)
You're not citing a better source either agreeing or opposing the argument made though.
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