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House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app

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Re: House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app

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Post by rusty_venture »

organsnyder wrote: post #2

It's amazing the lengths we'll go in the United States to avoid passing a comprehensive national privacy protections law.

A Chinese company isn't bound by US laws, so this is a necessary precursor to that.

Edit: I stand corrected, they are bound by our laws, but it's orders of magnitude easier to enforce those laws on a company based in the US than a company based in China.

Re: House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app

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Post by mikeyouse »

rusty_venture wrote: post #4
organsnyder wrote: post #2

It's amazing the lengths we'll go in the United States to avoid passing a comprehensive national privacy protections law.

A Chinese company isn't bound by US laws, so this is a necessary precursor to that. Edit: I stand corrected, they are bound by our laws, but it's orders of magnitude easier to enforce those laws on a company based in the US than a company based in China.

If they operate in the US, they certainly are.

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Post by sickofparadox »

organsnyder wrote: post #2

It's amazing the lengths we'll go in the United States to avoid passing a comprehensive national privacy protections law.

One could hope that this is a brick in the path towards a solid, comprehensive privacy law at the national level. Especially given bipartisan criticism of "home grown" spying platforms such as Facebook and Google, it certainly doesn't seem impossible (just unlikely).
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