We as a country are and will remain an economic and political system referred to as capitalism. Microsoft are Pfizer are stellar examples in our country that are controlled by private USA owners and run for profit. Trump is showing both paths to get government approval, whether if a vaccine or to assure defense-security concerns of foriegn actors. In the Microsoft sernario Trump has set the stage for a sale to consider competing for. The market forces will still exist. Motive here is profit. A broker fee to the government is built into the pricing already. And if no one wants to buy TikTok so be it, and a ban will likely materialize.
That’s called extortion
Hey that’s a nice tech company you’re looking to buy. It would a shame if something happened to it
that is simply false.
The U.S government will get tax income off the new asset.
but they don’t get a “broker fee” that is straight up extortion.
Extortion is illegal. So maybe wrong choice of words to call it a broker fee. That being said, the President will surely have a way that is both legal and fair for all concerned.
and how exactly does the government ban tik tok anyway.
theres something called the first amendment…
Yes its called new tax income.
The government doesn’t get a percentage of the money from the deal that is extortion.
The mob doesn’t call it extortion either. Use whatever name you want, it’s still extortion
The POTUS can easily find legal ways to forbid Chinese government from mandating the turnover of sensitive information of American citizens.
The POTUS made it known in public today of how he is thinking about TikTok. Rarely do we see elected government officials exhibit solid business acumen. As a matter of fact we have examples of utter disasters in government. For example, Governor Cuomo invested like a half billion dollars in solar panels that did not pan out.
Extortion is not a solid business acumen…There’s a reason we don’t see politicians doing it out in the open. It’s illegal
Yeah like trying to extort a private business in order to approve a deal
Unlike extortion bad business decisions are not illegal
Not if they sell their American operations/interests to Microsoft. If that happens there will be nothing to stop teenagers from embarrassing the President the next time either
Technically speaking, I don’t see how trump can completely block Tik Tok from being accessed or downloaded.
No worries, no extortion, it’s just business done fair and square with Trump in the forefront. We will save Chinese government extorting others for another day.
Seems like other countries ban China like India already, so likewise logical to conclude USA can technically follow suit too.
No, It’s extortion. Plain and simple textbook extortion
Does India have the right to free speech embedded in their Constitution?
How will Trump keep Tik Tok users from embarrassing him if it’s sold to Microsoft?
I would not worry about Trump, especially at it relates to him and others deploying their constitutional rights including freedom of speech.
You seem to have it backwards. Trump is the one trying to deny others the constitutional rights to freedom of speech…and the constitutional right to vote but that’s another thread
Infrastructure in these two countries is vastly different than the US.
We don’t have a nationwide, network-level ability to block internet content like China’s Great Firewall does.
