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dkjaudyeqooe | on: TikTok goes dark in the US
Why are you looking to the US for your outrage, EU members are doing the exact same thing:

"Eleven EU countries took 5G security measures to ban Huawei, ZTE "

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/08/12/eleven-eu-countries...

mfuzzey | parent | next
It's not quite the same. The EU has banned those companies from supplying network infrastructure. That infrastructure is used both by private individuals and by companies, ministers etc. AFAIK they have also banned TikTok on official government phones. However they have not generally banned TikTok for everyone.

To me this makes more sense since a back door in network infrastructure allowing governement communications to be intercepted is far more serious than some kid using TikTok.

motorest | root | parent
> AFAIK they have also banned TikTok on official government phones. However they have not generally banned TikTok for everyone.

The US is not banning TikTok. The US is forcing ByteDance to sell it's controlling position on TikTok or else the company is no longer able to operate within the US.

How come the critical bit is repeatedly left out?

palata | root | parent
"I did not shoot this person: I asked this person to give me all their money or else I would shoot them."
motorest | root | parent
No. The requirement is that ByteDance must sell it's position of a company. If you bother to learn about the law in question, it quite blatantly targets the ownership of the company, not the company itself.

ByteDance instead opted to shut the company down in retaliation, because it found it was desirable to just crash the whole company than to have anyone else control it, and in the process is fooling useful idiots into believing this has nothing to do with China's interference.

palata | root | parent
Did you just call me an idiot?

Saying "It is not a ban because if they give it to us then we won't ban it, but if they don't we will ban it but it still won't be a ban because they had a choice in the first place" sounds so ridiculous to me that I don't even know how to argue here.

palata | parent
They haven't banned the Huawei smartphones, have they?