[psunavy03]

TikTok is not being banned. TikTok is being required to sell to a non-Chinese stakeholder in order to mitigate the national security threat of it being indirectly controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.

These are not the same thing, and it's depressing how vulnerable people seem to be to propaganda anymore. No one can even read a legal brief or a law.

[cma]

Microsoft is not being banned from China. China just asks that Microsoft sell itself to a non-American company or they will be banned (but it's not a ban).

[slowmovintarget]

Absolutely, all of these articles are appeals to emotion. I imagine that works especially for the folks who have an addiction to the propaganda dispenser.

[moralestapia]

Yeah, and what if they don't comply?