House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app

Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by happytoexplain on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @11:07AM (#39692144)

If they feel their relationship with the US is similar to the US's relationship with China in the relevant ways, then they absolutely should do the same. My understanding is that they don't feel that way, generally speaking.

They do in fact impose less extreme controls on data from these platforms, that lesser extremity presumably reflecting their lesser perception of the US's use of that data as highly dangerous, as compared to the US's perception of China.

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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by s_dev on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @12:54PM (#39694038)

>My understanding is that they don't feel that way, generally speaking.

US tech companies currently getting slapped around with large fines in the EU for similar infringements of privacy etc.

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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by thegginthesky on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @07:34PM (#39698863)

That is a much lesser punishment than what the US is doing in this thread. A fine that is a small but non-insignficant percentage of annual revenue is a measured response when you want to punish bad behavior but allow businesses to still operate within the jurisdiction.

Restricting business operation altogether is a response a country gives when they see the other party as extremely adversarial, which is a few orders of magnitude above what EU fines are to Big Tech.

Big difference

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