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Will ByteDance be forced to divest TikTok

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Bill of Attainder (Score:2)

by Spazmania ( 174582 ) writes:

U.S. courts are not fans of anything resembling a Bill of Attainder.
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  by penguinoid ( 724646 ) writes:
  
  Courts are not fond of skipping the courts?
Who cares? (Score:3)

by 0xG ( 712423 ) writes: on Thursday March 21, 2024 @11:49AM (#64333723)

There should be more choices besides y/n/idk: idc

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  by mcfatboy93 ( 1363705 ) writes:
  
  Cowboy Neal could buy it.
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  by FrankOVD ( 4965439 ) writes:
  
  I'd say : "Anybody who's wary of government censorship. Which is, I hope, a majority of citizens in a democracy."
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    by mrthoughtful ( 466814 ) writes:
    
    Recent polling suggests that most citizens in a democracy are mostly concerned with (1) paying the bills, (2) their family's health and welfare, (3) getting or keeping their job, (4) maintaining the upkeep of their home, (5) enjoying whatever scraps of leisure time they can find. Being concerned with government censorship is the prerogative of the privileged, the paranoid, and those who are yet to be burdened by responsibilities.
    - Re: Who cares? (Score:2)
      
      by l0ungeb0y ( 442022 ) writes:
      
      So letâ(TM)s burn democracy and the bill of rights to the ground right now. TRUMP 2024! Freedoms are for rich people, the billionaires. Letâ(TM)s stop deluding ourselves and accept slavery, because thatâ(TM)s the future for pieces of shit like you who are already slaves, just too self centered and ignorant to realize it yet
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      by easyTree ( 1042254 ) writes:
      
      You are aptly named....
They can't be forced (Score:2)

by agm ( 467017 ) writes:

They can't be forced, though they can be banned from certain countries. ByteDance could say "fine, we won't operate in the countries that ban us".
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  by dwater ( 72834 ) writes:
  
  Yup. That's why I voted "no*.
  The USA isn't significant enough to force a sale, imo.
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  by sit1963nz ( 934837 ) writes:
  
  AND...they will push for people to use VPNs, so they can carry on as normal.
  Heck, they could even set up a TOR node.
Hello? I'm from Europe? (Score:2)

by MessageDrivenBean ( 534518 ) writes:

These polls are way too much US centric.
- Re:Hello? I'm from Europe? (Score:5, Interesting)
  
  by jonadab ( 583620 ) writes: on Friday March 29, 2024 @12:57PM (#64353868) Homepage Journal
  
  Slashdot is and always has been totally unapologetically an American site, by design. It is not *intended* for Europeans, or Asians, or cetera.
  
  This is also why it's still ASCII-only, decades after widespread adoption of utf-8 elsewhere. Diacritical marks aren't needed in English, and comments in other languages would be considered spam here.
  
  Europeans who don't like this aspect of Slashdot, are always free to go find another site.
  
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      by jonadab ( 583620 ) writes:
      
      How do you know it's not an American spoofing a European spoofing an American?
      
      I will admit that I have occasionally been mildly annoyed that I couldn't use actual Greek characters when discussing things like etymology and math on here. But given how bad the Spam problem is already, do I want all discussions to get buried under a huge pile of hanzi and emoji and whatnot? No, I do not. I've seen what that did to Usenet, and I am not keen on it.
      
      Slashdot walks a fine line. It has never attempted to gate its
Whack-a-Mole (Score:1)

by ErnyCowan ( 1687642 ) writes:

Forcing the sale of Tik Tok is just another round of Wack-a-Mole.
How about... (Score:2)

by Epsillon ( 608775 ) writes:

...don't care :-)
Its all about media control (Score:1)

by TheSlashdotHunter ( 10317841 ) writes:

If the U.S. can't control the media for its citizens, then they outlaw it. Same thing Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea do. It's all for our own good.

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