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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by andruby on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:47AM (#35369413)
> there is NO WAY that any of the NATO countries will not ban it immediately

I don't think it's that straight forward. NATO countries, and especially European ones, have a legal system that doens't allow them to just ban a specific company.

MAYBE the NATO countries will start working towards legal amendments that will make it possible to ban it. It definitely won't be immediate.

The governments might ban TikTok's by their employees.

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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by amelius on Thursday March 30, 2023 @05:13AM (#35369998)
> a legal system that doesn't allow them to just ban a specific company.

Which can be overruled by national security issues, I suppose.

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Re:TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse by palata on Thursday March 30, 2023 @06:59AM (#35370776)
I assume that their notion of "national security" is not as broad as in the US. I doubt European countries would take "it's commercially competing with Facebook" as a national security threat.
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