TikTok to Sue U.S. over Ban

Or the result is that indeed their operation is 100% independent of their Chinese parent company and no US data ever touches mainland China... which would surprise me.

Re: TikTok to Sue U.S. over Ban

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Post by evbpcapfxy » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 7:10 AM UTC

Why is congress not involved if it's so important? Should the president really have this power?

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Post by bawolff » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 7:11 AM UTC

> The app has also been used to antagonize the president, including when thousands of teens reserved tickets to the president's rally in Tulsa, Okla., with no intention of going, inflating the Trump campaign's expectations for the event and causing embarrassment over the disappointing turnout.

Forgot that was organized on tiktok. All makes sense now. If US was really interested in national security i'm pretty sure zoom would go long before tiktok

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Post by qshqwudhoquc » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 7:12 AM UTC

evbpcapfxy wrote: post #5

Why is congress not involved if it's so important? Should the president really have this power?

> If Congress believes the president has used the emergency economic powers unjustly, lawmakers can overrule the order by passing a resolution that would terminate the order.

> But any pushback from Congress is unlikely, as the skepticism about the Chinese Communist Party's potential ties to the country's technology companies has gathered bipartisan support.

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Post by wmichelin » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 7:12 AM UTC

While I think TikTok is a cesspool, Trump banning TikTok is a wild overextension of Federal power. How any "small gov't" conservative is okay with this, while over 1000 Americans are dying of COVID per day nonetheless, is beyond me.

They need to educate Americans on the predatory nature of TikToks software and move along.

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Post by dear » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 7:13 AM UTC

khuey wrote: post #2

Discovery in this should be fun on both sides.

I believe Huawei sued and lost.

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Post by zpeti » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 7:15 AM UTC

Will a chinese company really comply with the US court system in terms of discovery? I would question if they are going to comply with discovery in a way that a US company might. What exactly is forcing them to hand over actual documentation and not just forgeries? Will the Chinese court system get them in trouble for that? I doubt it.

After all many publically traded chinese companies in the US aren't actually compliant with the same laws as US companies are.