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Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by lovich on Monday December 16, 2024 @01:30AM (#42428492)
If TikTok is the only place you can speak and there aren’t equivalent services then it sounds like it needs to be broken up on the basis of being a monopoly.

As there are other services and the only thing being targeted is foreign ownership by members of a country that blocks our services, then no, I don’t think it’s about censorship.

This wasn’t even a ban on TikTok, bytedance could have sold to an American owner but have refused.

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Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by seanmcdirmid on Monday December 16, 2024 @01:32AM (#42428506)
You’ll find most of TikTok content on YouTube shorts or on Facebook. Content provider often don’t even bother getting rid of the TikTok watermark.
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Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by rfoo on Monday December 16, 2024 @04:27AM (#42429408)
> This wasn’t even a ban on TikTok, bytedance could have sold to an American owner but have refused.

So, you mean this wasn't even a ban, it was just robbery?

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Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by lovich on Monday December 16, 2024 @05:36PM (#42436254)
I legitimately believe that classifying this as robbery is a lot closer to the truth than classifying it as censorship.

Not that I’d fully agree with that vis a vis how international relations between China and the USA work, but it’s definitely a more accurate description

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