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Re:Joe Biden says he would sign bill banning TikTok by TMWNN on Sunday March 10, 2024 @08:47PM (#39663780)
>And to clarify, those were bans. This is not. TikTok just needs to be sold to a non-foreign adversary country.

If TikTok were a Canadian, British, French, German, Korean, Japanese, or Taiwanese company, the US government wouldn't feel the need to intervene in the first place.

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Re:Joe Biden says he would sign bill banning TikTok by JumpCrisscross on Sunday March 10, 2024 @08:48PM (#39663789)
> If TikTok were a Canadian, British, French, German, Korean, Japanese, or Taiwanese company, the US government wouldn't feel the need to intervene in the first place

This bill makes that explicit. TikTok doesn't have to be sold to an American. It could be sold to any of the above, and it would comply with the proposed law.

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