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TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Notably the ban doesn’t kick in until after the election, after which it may not even be Biden’s problem. Maybe ByteDance will shut it down sooner. Maybe the next administration won’t follow through with the ban. 🤷

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It was smart to delay the ban. The original bill would have banned it before the election - monumentally stupid! This, at least, delays the impact.

People are paying attention, though, and TikTok has been buying ads to campaign against this law. It's still going to have an impact.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And Biden himself has a tiktok account that pumps out content.

The whole thing is very cynical and weird.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

It's a piss poor attempt to try control tiktok and ensure they play along. They don't really want it banned, they just want to control the flow of information and it's absolutely destroying the illusion of the first amendment!