Montana becomes first US state to ban TikTok

Re:Montana becomes first US state to ban TikTok by jameshart on Thursday May 18, 2023 @10:33AM (#35988530)

Actually - correcting myself. There IS a clause that unbans TikTok on ownership transfer. I didn't read far enough down:

> Section 4. Contingent voidness. [This act] is void if tiktok is acquired by or sold to a company that is not incorporated in any other country designated as a foreign adversary in 15 C.F.R. 7.4 at the time tiktok is sold or acquired.

If TikTok is transferred to a company not owned by China the act goes away.

So they could just do that, then reacquire the company and this law vanishes in a puff of logic.

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Re:Montana becomes first US state to ban TikTok by anonymouskimmer on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:56PM (#35992479)

The law would still be on the books. Presumably it would become non-void, and immediately active, if a Chinese company repurchased TikTok from a non-Chinese company. Much like unconstitutional laws prohibiting abortion became immediately active again after the recent Supreme Court ruling.

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