And they’re already kissing Trump’s ass

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    1 day ago

    If that were true then they wouldn’t have given ByteDance the option to sell 80% to citizens and continue operating.

    The law also bans every company from doing the same thing, sending personal data to any of the listed adversarial nations or being more than 20% owned by them. Why ban every company if they only cared about the Palestine message?

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      4 hours ago

      If that were true then they wouldn’t have given ByteDance the option to sell 80% to citizens and continue operating.

      Except the entire point of that is the U.S. ownership would succumb to that pressure.

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        4 hours ago

        *U.S. Citizen Ownership

        Because yeah, Chinese Military ownership is problematic for an app used by US Citizens.

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      17 hours ago

      Making ByteDance sell 80% to US companies is a win for the powers that be because then that too can be manipulated by right-wing oligarchs.

      I don’t trust Chinese companies all that much either, but Mitt Romney outright said this was about Palestine, you can see another reply of mine below with a link.

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      23 hours ago

      So how are a ton of people going to red note? Shouldn’t that have been banned a long time ago if they ban every company?

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        20 hours ago

        Probably difficult to enforce if RedNote doesn’t have American servers or offices, we will see if anything happens.