• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    They would then be under US jurisdiction, that’s the issue with TikTok, the US can’t for them to comply with any laws, current or future.

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      7 hours ago

      Bullshit. Any country has jurisdiction over companies operating inside it’s borders. If what you say is true then we couldn’t even ban TikTok.

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        3 hours ago

        Who exactly do you expect them to sue if a website has no physical presence inside the US borders and it disobeys US laws? 🤔

        The only thing they can truly do against TikTok is prevent people from downloading the app through official means and having ISPs blocking the website. Outside of that it could 100% continue operating and scraping user data to send it to China.

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          TikTok does have US offices and employees though.

          And yeah if they’re blocked in the app stores, and by ISPs you’d have to side load it onto your phone and tunnel out with a VPN. 170 million Americans aren’t doing that. You’d be lucky to find 100,000 willing to do it.

          And since even SCOTUS laughed at the espionage argument, we again need to bring up that China just buys the exact same data from Meta, Alphabet, and X. We aren’t securing anything.

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      6 hours ago

      No, the issue with Tik Tok is that the government can’t control it like it does Facebook, Twitter, etc.

      There is nothing in China that can harm you as much as the American Government. No intention, no action, no belief will ever hurt you as much as America has.

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        3 hours ago

        They can’t control it because… It’s not located in the USA! Good job, you understood what I said!