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TikTok Ban Measure Attached to House Foreign Aid Bill, Boosting Odds of Passage

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A forced divestiture is a very different thing than a ban. The divestiture requirements are also very open. A new owner headquartered in all but a very short list of countries labelled as adversarial would satisfy it.

Flagging this for the very misleading headline.

Tiktok has stated that they would not divest, but rather pull out of the market. Since they are facing the option of divest or get banned, they are effectively being banned

That scenario would be a case of Tiktok (or its Chinese owners) choosing to shut down rather than divest, not of their product being banned.

So what happens when tiktok doesn't get sold or doesn't close? Do app stores keep offering it? Does the website remain accessible? Do people keep going to work at the office?

> Sell yourself or else

What is the "or else"?

The result is the same thing that happens when a food processor doesn't stop selling rancid meat after the government tells it to.

The government prevents you from operating. In other words they ban you.

This is only in the case of someone with a poor grasp of the English language.

Food processors that refuse to stop selling rancid meat aren't "banned". They're shut down! The only thing that's banned is the selling of rancid meat, not the specific companies.

Very poor analogy. Once the government has arrested all the employees, bombed all the offices, seized any assets it can, but people still use the app or visit the website then what follows?

It's the same thing as banning. It's banning via a different method. It's more of a ban than china 'banning' US social media for refusing to follow chinese laws within their own country.

https://archive.ph/0PkKG

Takes two to tango

...and thus we see the mighty power of AIPAC!

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