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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by withinboredom on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:39AM (#42758572)
> No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

I believe this applies to the USA as a whole as well, not just to states (Bolling v. Sharpe (1954) according to ChatGPT). One could argue the law is unconstitutional because it applies a punishment without due process.

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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by motorest on Sunday January 19, 2025 @12:01PM (#42758813)
> I believe this applies to the USA as a whole as well, not just to states (Bolling v. Sharpe (1954) according to ChatGPT). One could argue the law is unconstitutional because it applies a punishment without due process.

The 14th amendment applies to US citizens and persons. The law requires ByteDance to sell it's TikTok position. Who do you think is the US citizen or person in this case? China's CCP?

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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by whimsicalism on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:56AM (#42758757)
wdym - they’re literally taking it to court right now
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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by philwelch on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:53AM (#42758722)
“Citizens of the United States” and “person within its jurisdiction” don’t apply to the Chinese Communist Party.
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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by withinboredom on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:58AM (#42758783)
Pretty sure it was a US company... probably owned by Chinese, but I haven't been following it super closely and can't see how that matters any bit. It's sad how much the US has changed in the last decade since I became an expat almost a decade ago.
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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by motorest on Sunday January 19, 2025 @12:03PM (#42758836)
> Pretty sure it was a US company... probably owned by Chinese (...)

ByteDance Ltd. is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance

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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by withinboredom on Sunday January 19, 2025 @12:10PM (#42758948)
I mean, literally right here in the first page of the arguments (page 4):

> First, TikTok incorporated as a U.S. company speaking in the United States.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcr...

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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by motorest on Sunday January 19, 2025 @12:28PM (#42759168)
I think you're confused.

The company being targeted is ByteDance, not TikTok. The US government wants ByteDance to sell it's controlling position on TikTok to someone else, or else TikTok can no longer operate in the US. ByteDance is a Chinese company that is a de-facto shell corporation of China's CCP. For the 14th amendment to apply, you would need to argue that either a Chinese corporation or China's CCP would be US citizens.

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