That wouldn’t solve the problem because the Chinese government is not bound by US law in China.
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theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 year ago[deleted]
breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Yes, which doesn’t solve the problem because the problem is in China. The Chinese government can demand any information that ByteDance possesses. Under Chinese law, they are bound to comply and bound to deny that they were even asked under threat of extremely harsh punishment.
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It does solve the problem at least as far as then you’d have legal standing to ban til too, and equally anything else that doesn’t follow the law
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Funny you say that, because Chinese apps like tiktok can’t ever be compliant with GDPR, and American ones are fully reliant on an executive order where Biden pinky swore to not use the Cloud Act against GDPR.