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A comment on House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app. Parent comment

Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by TMWNN on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @12:34PM (#39693690)
>Lol, the US finally showing its true colors. It's a freemarket until our companies start to lose

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

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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by jessi_lia on Thursday March 14, 2024 @08:00AM (#39702738)
Not supporting the post you responded to, while not sure about your opinion either, something perhaps relative:

- To a French company: [The American Trap](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1529326869)

- To Japanese semi-conductor industry and others: [The False Allure of Managed Trade - WSJ](https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-false-allure-of-managed-tra...)

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