• @Viking_Hippie
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    -29 months ago

    So which is it?

    Is the US unable to hold Tiktok accountable or is it/should it be allowed to dictate the ownership of Tiktok?

    I’d argue it’s neither. The US is perfectly within their rights to enforce US laws within the US, including towards companies not based in the US. That’s literally what being a sovereign nation means.

    As for forcing the change of ownership of a company that hasn’t been found guilty of anything but SUSPICION based on ASSOCIATION, that’s some banana republic demagoguery nonsense designed to make right wing voters think that politicians up for re-election are “tough on China” and centrists think they’re “standing up for democracy”.

    It’s not “proactive”, it’s oppressive and unjustified.

    • borari
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      29 months ago

      So which is it?

      Is the US unable to hold Tiktok accountable or is it/should it be allowed to dictate the ownership of Tiktok?

      I was wrong, TikTok has a US subsidiary, so accountability can been enforced. I was under the mistaken impression they didn’t, so operating on the assumption that any accountability action would be functionally unenforceable.