• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    And unfortunately for the CCP they fail #3

    The bill doesn’t target the CCP, it targets a US subsidiary of a Singapore-based multinational.

    unless the Chinese owners divest and all Chinese centralization for the company gets shut down

    A rule that applies exclusively to the US subsidiary of TikTok.

    It would be akin to passing a law that says @finitebanjo must have all of his possessions seized in the next nine months, because he took money from the Canadian government. Canada isn’t the target of the legislation and the scope of the legislation isn’t universal - it’s only assigning a punishment to a single domestic resident - and entirely on the grounds that the current chief executive doesn’t like Justin Trudeau.

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        It would be akin to passing a law that states Finite Banjo’s friend Jose

        Except, again, the business being penalized is the American subsidiary.

        The fact that you think you can remove all context

        The context is that the commercial assets and employees being threatened by the US government are all within US territory.