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TikTok plans to sue Trump administration over US ban
TikTok plans to sue the Trump administration over its executive order banning transactions between U.S. companies and the popular video-sharing app as well as its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
"Even though we strongly disagree with the Administration's concerns, for nearly a year we have sought to engage in good faith to provide a constructive solution," a TikTok spokesperson told The Hill. "What we encountered instead was a lack of due process as the Administration paid no attention to facts and tried to insert itself into negotiations between private businesses," the spokesperson continued. "To ensure that the rule of law is not discarded and that our company and users are treated fairly, we have no choice but to challenge the Executive Order through the judicial system," the spokesperson added.
Also at NYT and Business Insider.
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(Score: 3, Troll) by looorg on Sunday August 23 2020, @03:00PM (6 children)
So any odds of success? I figure they are pretty low, on par with a snowballs chance in hell or there about. All I see now is companies, agencies and organizations of some kind in country after country is banning the app left and right. Most of them are not even places that deal with a lot of secrets or something that would benefit the chinese military intelligence community. I guess they are more concerned with all the data harvesting then anything else. So even if they by some kind of miracle they would get this overturned things might already have taken a turn for the worse. I wonder where all the little kids, or whomever it is that use this app again, will migrate to next? Anyone have a guess as of what will be the next cool thing? Cause we know that Facebook and Twitter and whatever are now all just for old people.
I guess they might as well just sell to Microsoft, or whomever is the current top bidder, and cash out while it's still worth something substantial.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Sulla on Sunday August 23 2020, @09:57PM (4 children)
I was interested by the desire of Oracle to buy TikTok. Oracle has been advertising their services on anti-China media for the last year or so. Could be interesting if Oracle was planning on reverse spying on the CCP.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday August 23 2020, @11:46PM (1 child)
Oracle are Trump's new favourite tech company, after Larry organised one of those "fundraising" things.
That is how policy is made in America at the moment.
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 24 2020, @01:04AM
You must be new here. Money has always bought political influence.
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Monday August 24 2020, @05:36PM (1 child)
Oracle? How would that work? They would plan to fill it up with videos of CEOs blathering bullshit techno jargon? They would re-write the plaform in Java and re-release it years late? The new client would only be 2.5TB in size? How many patchsets would you need to apply to get the client working? Would you even be able to find the appropriate one without spending years digging through endless support articles? What kind of contracts would you need in place to be able to use it? Then after years of painful festering, the desupport announcement finally puts it out of its misery?
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Monday August 24 2020, @06:12PM
Yes. That is what makes it funny.
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(Score: 2) by leon_the_cat on Sunday August 23 2020, @11:50PM
Yes they got it printed in a few newpapers that was kinda the whole game.