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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by akie on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:36AM (#35369351)
> If the US bans it on national security grounds, there is NO WAY that any of the NATO countries will not ban it immediately.

I'm sorry, but that's not how this works. These other NATO countries are independent countries with their own legislature and parliaments, many of them bound more by EU rules than by current US tendencies or laws. Sure, the US might try to pressure NATO countries to follow suit, and some of them might, but it's far from given.

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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by dijit on Thursday March 30, 2023 @05:30AM (#35370128)
For evidence of how this will go: look at Huawei.

Banned in the UK & Germany (but only for 5G infra I think[0]) rest of NATO didn't pay strong attention.

[0]: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/huawei-legal-notices-issu...

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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by beebeepka on Thursday March 30, 2023 @05:43AM (#35370195)
We're independent vassals
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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by chottocharaii on Thursday March 30, 2023 @07:04AM (#35370827)
(laughs in Australian)
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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by defrost on Thursday March 30, 2023 @07:15AM (#35370914)
The US isn't even the leader in such blocks and bans in many cases either; Australia blocked Huawei and ZTE from providing equipment for its 5G network on security grounds back in August 2018 .. and various European countries were muttering about such concerns since that time at least.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/22/australia-bans-huawei-and-...

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