• Afkargh@beehaw.org
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    7 months ago

    Interesting that Temu and AliExpress are also China owned, yet there’s no mention of any issues with them.

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      7 months ago

      I suggest you read the bill. It isn’t a tik tok ban. It’s actually quite a good piece of legislation.

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        7 months ago

        It is a vague and sprawling piece of legislation that gives money to Israel and Ukraine, makes Fentanyl more illegal, makes money laundering for fentanyl more illegal, allows seizure and use if Russian assets, restricts “foreign adversaries” from distributing and maintaining apps, restricts “foreign adversaries” from transferring data away from the US, and makes Iranian terrorism more illegal.

        It does like 3 things that are fine, but these should all be different bills (the data transfer bits, seizing Russian assets, and sending aide to Ukraine, though that is getting iffy)

        It IS a TikTok band and explicitly names ByteDance and TikTok, and also vaguely defines foreign adversaries to the point where it could be any person operating in a country that the US doesn’t like.

        “Quite a good piece of legislation” is only true if you mean quite as sprawling and good as ill defined

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          7 months ago

          “sending aide to Ukraine, though that is getting iffy”

          This tells me everything I need to know. That you would even say something like this means you have no idea what you’re talking about.

          Additionally, you realize that those are all separate bills, right?