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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by JumpCrisscross on Friday January 17, 2025 @11:38AM (#42739925)
> if the end result of this was another several years of congressional drama about a different Chinese app

No need. If it’s Chinese and has more than 100mm (EDIT: 1mm) users, Commerce can designate it a foreign-adversary controlled application and designate it for app-store delisting.

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by abeppu on Friday January 17, 2025 @11:53AM (#42740177)
I think the threshold is way lower than that? The "Covered Company" definition mentions 1 million monthly active users for at least 2 of the 3 months preceding some determination.

Also, I wonder who is the foreign-based "reviews" site that lobbied for the exclusion clause immediately following that?

https://www.congress.gov/118/plaws/publ50/PLAW-118publ50.pdf

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by JumpCrisscross on Friday January 17, 2025 @12:05PM (#42740396)
Hmm, § 2(g)(2)(b) been there since the start [1].

[1] https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr7521/BILLS-118hr7521ih....

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