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by Veraticus 776 days ago
You seem to have a misunderstanding of how US law works. Not all laws have legislatively-defined consequences for violating them. For example, consider laws against terrorism: even though terrorism is illegal, sanctioning individuals for terrorism can be done either legislatively or executively and occurs on a case-by-case basis.

Similarly here to ByteDance, which has violated American laws for years and is now experiencing the consequences of its non-compliance.

So actually, my claim is true; your understanding of US law is what is lacking here.

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Your claim is false, and your evidence is nowhere to be found
Do you think that continually asserting my wrongness makes me wrong?

I encourage you to understand this issue more deeply. But if it is evidence you lack, here it is:

A timeline of TikTok's history of reported security flaws, continual failures to fix them, and why it is currently in this situation: https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-timeline-ban-biden-india-d...

A list of countries that have already banned TikTok and their reasons for doing so: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/these-countries-have-alre...

Of course, that list does not include China itself, which also has TikTok banned locally.