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Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok if it's not sold by its Chinese parent company (apnews.com)
submitted 12 hours ago by remington to c/technology
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[–] testman@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago

Time to promote Loops all over the internet?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Thanks for keeping the "if not sold". They've had many opportunities to make it legal, and they've fought it all the way. It's not a "ban" as much as it is a forced sale.

I'm guessing next week we're going to hear they spun it off to a totally american company, or meta taking it over or something. Then everyone will celebrate that it's back.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 10 hours ago

I guess Biden isn't going to enforce it and Trump has promised not to as well. So... This sucks.

[–] DdCno1 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Good riddance. I hope the EU follows suit and soon. Von der Leyen has indicated that this is on the table:

https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-ban-in-eu-is-not-excluded-von-der-leyen-says/

In case people still think it's just another social media app and that it's only being banned, because "China bad":

https://www.nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-tiktok-vm-1

I have only ever seen this kind of obfuscation with malware before. This fits unconfirmed (but credible) reports that ByteDance will not permit any non-Chinese employees to even look at the backend in their foreign offices and instead fly in experts from China. That's not normal.