Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores

Re:Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads fro... by sudosysgen on Sunday September 27, 2020 @10:26PM (#24612346)

Are there actually real limits on government in the US? If the Democrats and Republicans agreed that they wanted to do something, would anything stop them?

The US government is already unconstitutionally doing what you say that judicial review prevents, and the partisan (by design) Supreme Court simply refuses to take the case. So much for judicial review.

There is no check for power, only balances of power. And power in the US tends to agree on such things as much as power within the CCP.

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Re:Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads fro... by warbaker on Sunday September 27, 2020 @10:59PM (#24612538)

Are you seriously equating the two govts? Consider that, because hackernews/YC is a US company, your post is read by everyone who cares to see it.

Consider what would happen if you decried the powers of the CCP on a China-based platform. Consider what would happen to you, personally, if you did so while living in China.

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Re:Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads fro... by niihau_island on Monday September 28, 2020 @03:52AM (#24614096)

Criticizing the government and the powers of the CCP are perfectly fair game - these kinds of over the top misinformed takes unfortunately plague HN.

Obviously, China silences dissenters. However, most of the comments in this thread probably wouldn't even be removed.

Take this study (cited 1600 times) from Harvard:

https://gking.harvard.edu/publications/how-censorship-china-...

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Re:Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads fro... by sudosysgen on Monday September 28, 2020 @10:20AM (#24616857)

How does that have anything to do with my point that if the Democrats and Republicans agree on something unconstitutional it will happen anyways?

Both that can be true and it can also be true that the Chinese government is worse to their own citizens.

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Re:Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads fro... by YarickR2 on Sunday September 27, 2020 @11:26PM (#24612687)

And what would happen, then ? Any specific examples of such things happening ?

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Re:Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads fro... by aggronn on Monday September 28, 2020 @12:47AM (#24613068)

Here's a very short list of pro-democracy or pro-human rights dissidents and what kinds of punishment we know happened to them as a result:

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

Here's some internet-specific examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China#A...

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