TikTok goes dark in the US

Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by bdangubic on Sunday January 19, 2025 @04:22PM (#42761997)

What would you call Tesla not being able to sell cars in China unless sold to a Chinese company - what might you call that? :)

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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by josephcsible on Sunday January 19, 2025 @04:41PM (#42762183)

I'd call it "the way things actually were from 1994 until 2022": https://www.carscoops.com/2021/12/china-will-no-longer-requi...

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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by bdangubic on Sunday January 19, 2025 @05:07PM (#42762486)

so not “ban”? :)

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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by josephcsible on Sunday January 19, 2025 @05:10PM (#42762515)

Giga Shanghai opened in 2019 while that was still in effect, so no, not "ban".

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Re:TikTok goes dark in the US by sanderjd on Sunday January 19, 2025 @09:06PM (#42764247)

If they want to do that, of course they can. (And indeed, Chinese car companies are already treated differently in US law to such an extent that they aren't in the US market at all.)

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