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Exactly! The China and Russia supporters are crying and trying all sorts of deflection and false equivalence. never mind that

1.) It's pointless, TikTok is officially banned in US. Even if trump decides to find a US buyer for it, it will go under strict ownership investigation. So there's no way Chinese government has any influence anymore.

2.) This means that any future Chinese apps that get popular will get banned, and no need to go through any court challenges since there's precedent and law

3.) The traffic from the original TikTok will just keep getting split and syphoned, until the magnificent seven claims most of it

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> The China and Russia supporters are crying

except this is not what's happening, the opposite is true: the "manga" (make american nato...) supporters are screaming that China and Russia are finally defeated in the propaganda war, while China and Russia do not care about the tik tok ban.

It's already a victory when the enemy castrate itself and goes against the sentiment of their population, especially the young ones, out of fear that something might happen, but there's no evidence it has happened yet not that it is going to happen anytime soon.

When you think that tik tok is so dangerous that your democracy could fall because of it, well, you got bigger problems on your hands.

I see Russia not caring, but to say China doesn’t care in the slightest doesn’t make sense. Especially with a company at that scale. There wouldn’t be a push to the Red Book if that was the case.

> goes against the sentiment of their population

If you read this thread you’ll see that it’s pretty divided. I for one don’t care that it’s gone and even welcome the ban. I dislike that China has a firewall for American companies, but will gladly enter our market.

> There wouldn’t be a push to the Red Book if that was the case.

Isn't Red Book pushed by angry titk tok users, just like blue sky was the reaction to Musk buying Twitter?

> I dislike that China has a firewall for American companies, but will gladly enter our market.

China was invited by the USA in the USA market.

In exchange for their cheap and educated labor force and growing market.

Ask Apple if it was good or bad for them to exploit the Chinese market and labor.

It's the USA that pushed to invite them in the WTO.

Is it too much to ask to the USA to reflect a little before acting?

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