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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by Kerrick on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @02:51PM (#39695753)
Our Constitution also says, "The Congress shall have Power [...] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations."

Forcing a sale of TikTok so it's not foreign (with a punishment of banning if they don't), especially while making no such law for U.S. controlled competitors, is no more an infringement upon free speech than introducing a tariff or trade restriction on German-manufactured printing presses while leaving domestic models untouched.

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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by victorbjorklund on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @03:04PM (#39695919)
What if EU forced american companies to sell off their stuff to european companies? It isnt that easy.
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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by IncreasePosts on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @04:22PM (#39696954)
Then American companies would need to consider whether they wanted to pull out of the market, or spin off a European version of the company.
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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by eppp on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @04:17PM (#39696882)
What is the difference in making the terms of operation impossible or forcing a sale really at the end of the day?

Why doesnt google or meta operate in China?

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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by maxwell on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @03:09PM (#39695979)
That would be great! Do Apple first.
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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by larrik on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @03:54PM (#39696582)
This actually isn't too far fetched with the data privacy laws in the EU. It's not an explicit directive, though.
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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by throwuwu on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @04:51PM (#39697331)
If they passed a law requiring US companies operating in Europe to divest their ownership in those subsidiaries or be banned from operating there then that would be their right as a government. Isn’t the EU rather famous at the moment for forcing foreign businesses to comply with their laws and regulations? e.g. GDPR
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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by hughesjj on Thursday March 14, 2024 @03:38PM (#39708097)
And thank God for the EU doing such as well

That said, so long as you don't have data centers in the country, what can they realistically do to stop you if you have a VPN?

There's nothing illegal w.r.t a private citizen trying to circumvent censorship afaik. If you're trying to use illegal content or services (hitmen, drugs, child porn, non us compliant crypto such as finance etc), then I can see the retribution, but unless you go full middle east/CCP people will still get access to and repost it

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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by ribosometronome on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @05:46PM (#39697948)
Or China! China has definitely prohibited American companies from reasonably operating in the US. Reciprocity there makes sense but it does seem that this sort of reciprocity is going further than China had, no?
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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @05:51PM (#39698009)
EU is doing similar with anti-trust rules and rulings. It is their right to regulate commerce in their jurisdiction, even if that means fining Apple based on world revenue/profits rather than EU revenue/profits.
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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by orangecat on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @06:46PM (#39698508)
What if EU forced american companies to sell off their stuff to european companies?

That would likely be unwise, but it would be a legitimate use of authority.

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