• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I mean this is just hilarious to me. Don’t trust their billionaire corporate oligarchs, trust our billionaire corporate oligarchs.

    The news comes a day after the House voted 352-65 on a bipartisan measure to force Beijing-based ByteDance to find a U.S. buyer for TikTok within six months,

    Can we do the same to break Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon up?

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      8 months ago

      No, but US legislators are trying to force it to enrich their rich buddies for “national security”.

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      8 months ago

      It’s sort of similar, but the US government isn’t seizing TikTok. It, when the legislation is signed, will force sale to a US entity or otherwise prevent the usage in the United States.

      ByteDance will probably get somewhat close to fair market value for the application, after all of the lawsuits and legal challenges are over with

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        8 months ago

        ByteDance will probably get somewhat close to fair market value for the application

        No it won’t.

        The amount of power Tiktok has is priceless, which is exactly why Americans spread so much FUD to put that power in the hands of their rulers.