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by tw1984 520 days ago
> ByteDance surprised almost everyone in choosing the stick.

shortly after Trump tried to force bytedance to sell its shares during his first term, the Chinese government passed laws to include the recommendation systems used in social media into the export control list. bytedance thus won't be able to sell tiktok without approval from the chinese government.
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pjc50 520 days ago
Does anyone have a citation for this? Probably higher quality if it's in Chinese even if I have to machine translate it. Because that would be a clear pointer of suspicion.
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tw1984 520 days ago
2020 report by nyt, paywalled of coursed

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/technology/china-tiktok-e...

the official export control list in Chinese

https://www.most.gov.cn/tztg/202312/W020231221620858841394.p...

it is on the 29th page, with export control number 086501X, item 18.

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pjc50 520 days ago
OK, that's pretty convincing. And it's interesting how much other stuff is in there like OCR for Hanzi!
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