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It wasn't the current administration that banned sale of advanced AI chips to China.

Dragging us back to the 1930s seems to be a very bipartisan policy.

While I don't agree with that move, there's a difference between banning exports and banning imports/what US citizens are allowed to download.

... like banning ByteDance apps? Both parties are guilty here.

And that, which I also disagree with, is different, still. With TikTok, US citizens were not banned from using the app, or downloading it from overseas.

ByteDance apps are not banned.

ByteDance had an opportunity to sell TikTok to any company that isn’t based out of an enemy country that is known to have taken actions against the U.S. and its citizens.

PAFACA, enacted April 2024, bans all apps operated by ByteDance.

Anyway, I'm sure if DeepSeek was sold to a US company that'd be fine, too!

I see how PAFACA bans the distribution of the apps, I don't see where it bans the use of the apps. Citation?

Enemy? A bit overly strong and dramatic, no? I mean if they're an enemy why are we allowing any business with them? They might be an adversary.

Right, so who banned tictok?

Like I said, a very bipartisan position.

Trump, in 2020. Sadly the deep state impeded his executive order.

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/900019185/trump-signs-executi...

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