Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest

Re:Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock fo... by palata on Thursday April 25, 2024 @07:27AM (#40156114)

All very good points! Which apply to all social networks, not only TikTok. The difference with TikTok being that the US do not have control over it, and they are not used to that.

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Re:Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock fo... by alcoholic_byte on Thursday April 25, 2024 @08:15AM (#40156556)

I would generalize it. With radio, television and newspapers you have national sovereignty.

The internet broadened that and introduced apps. So I would see this as a correction rather than anything else.

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Re:Biden signs TikTok 'ban' bill into law, starting clock fo... by _heimdall on Thursday April 25, 2024 @07:46AM (#40156267)

The US law in question actually isn't specific to TikTok either. That's all that is brought up in the media and by politicians because it gets more attention, but the law is much .ore wide reaching.

This is the government grabbing the authority to ban online services that they deem a national risk. The bill would honestly have been much more benign if it was a few pages spelling out a specific ban on TokTok. Hell, I don't think they'd even need a law to have Google and Apple pull the app from the app stores.

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