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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 codedokode on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @01:26PM (#39694499)
So if TikTok was fully sponsored by the govt and didn't show ads and didn't earn any profit in US, then it can continue operating in US?
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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by Manuel_D on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @01:31PM (#39694552)
You can profit off of recording viewership patterns and activities, too. It's be very hard to prove ByteDance isn't doing that.
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