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TK3600

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You are putting the horse in front of the cart. Companies pay TT to advertise to get exposure for their products, not out of charity.

If a ban takes place but everyone in America still uses TT anyways (just look at prohibition and current US illegal drug use statistics to see how well bans work to get people to give up on things they want to do), American companies will become even more uncompetitive in their own markets compared to foreign rivals who do advertise on TT.

The only way America can actually do serious damage to Bytedance is if it places secondary sanctions in place on top of a ban. Secondary sanctions are nothing like a ban, and as far as I am aware, are not in the bill and on the cards, in the short term at least. If America is loony toon enough to try secondary sanctions, then it will be full spectrum economic nuclear war with China as China absolutely will not allow such a precedent to be set unopposed.
Most likely the ban can be bypass by certain influential business. If there is value to be made in Tiktok over others, there is a will to bypass. US government is too inept to stand the pressure of businesses.
 

siegecrossbow

General
Staff member
Super Moderator
This picture will probably go viral on Chinese social media, if it hasn't already.

The University of Texas at Austin is one of the best universities in the nation and one of my best buddies went there...this makes me sad :(

One of my profs posted a message condemning the use of force on LinkedIn and it already got several hundred likes.

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Party of the small government strikes again.
 

Bellum_Romanum

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Milei's Senpai Notice me moment.
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This Milei guy is aiming this announcement as a bargaining chip against CHINA. It was known recently that he's been questioning that legality and utility of China's satellite remote sensing station and he wanted the facility for some "inspection."

In my opinion this high minded and noble talk of non-interferenfe will bite them in the ass big time. The Americans and political animals around the world don't operate in such unrealistic nonsense. They operate pragmatically or rather on who's side can offer them power = wealth to be embezzled. I mean, no one in the Global North believes that China doesn't meddle in their internal affairs. Just look at the press coverage in countries like the U.S. to Canada, and the U.K. to Germany in Europe and Australia. All of these countries are accusing China (without evidence) that it's meddling with their fragile Democracy. So why not actually MEDDLE in their politics to protect itself and it's hard earned assets from being confiscated, abducted without any recourse other than making statements of indignation and righteousness.
 

Bellum_Romanum

Brigadier
Registered Member
The single most powerful help Arabs can get is reduce internal division. It is not money, weapons, or fighting spirit.

Who are the semites? Egyptians, people of east of Egypts are semites. Jews are a tiny minority. Why are Jews representing semites? Israel is the single biggest killer of semites. Is Israel anti-semitic? I hate that word. The fact it is imprinted in our mind shows how far the brainwash has gone to even us.
I am not even brain wash. I just don't want to get banned
 
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