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Re:TikTok ban bill in US faces changes after ByteDance spent... by Invictus0 on Thursday July 13, 2023 @01:23PM (#36712772)
I might be out of the loop, but I thought the original plan was just to force China to sell the assets to a company based in the US, not actually ban tiktok.
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Re:TikTok ban bill in US faces changes after ByteDance spent... by kneebonian on Thursday July 13, 2023 @01:34PM (#36712950)
That was originally what Trump was trying to do but for some reason it ran into judicial challenges.

I think Oracle was the frontrunner to acquire it.

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