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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by vehemenz on Friday January 17, 2025 @11:02AM (#42739207)
China bans US businesses because it has an autocratic, ethnocratic government. The US is banning a Chinese business for obvious national security reasons.
Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by johnnyanmac on Friday January 17, 2025 @11:14AM (#42739441)
Not too obvious to me unless there's some actual evidence of any of these claims of "China takes American data".

They take as much data as any of the various other manufacturing processes we outsourced over the decades.

Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by vehemenz on Friday January 17, 2025 @11:24AM (#42739638)
If you're comparing outsourcing, mutual trade agreements that benefit both countries, to intelligence gathering, copyright/patent theft, media influence, etc., you're probably not going to arrive at a serious position here (not to mention the downvote).
Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by suraci on Friday January 17, 2025 @01:21PM (#42741549)
I need to print this sentence out, frame it, paste it on the Tiananmen's wall.
Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by mrighele on Friday January 17, 2025 @02:16PM (#42742148)
Answering tit-for-tat is fine, even if the thing being done is bad in itself (e.g. waging war is bad, but should a country not use weapons to defend itself when invaded?). If else US and in general the West should have acted earlier: if American companies where free to operate in China and influence its people I doubt this ban would have been enacted.