Will ByteDance be forced to divest TikTok
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Will ByteDance be forced to divest TikTok
Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster? -- Dave Barry, "What is Electricity?"
Bill of Attainder (Score:2)
U.S. courts are not fans of anything resembling a Bill of Attainder.
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Courts are not fond of skipping the courts?
Who cares? (Score:3)
There should be more choices besides y/n/idk: idc
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Cowboy Neal could buy it.
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Re: Who cares? (Score:2)
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You are aptly named....
They can't be forced (Score:2)
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".
Re: They can't be forced (Score:1)
Yup. That's why I voted "no*.
The USA isn't significant enough to force a sale, imo.
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Heck, they could even set up a TOR node.
Hello? I'm from Europe? (Score:2)
Re:Hello? I'm from Europe? (Score:5, Interesting)
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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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)
How about... (Score:2)
Its all about media control (Score:1)