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Does Trump have the power to just order a company to be broken up like this? I get that there’s a national security angle to this, but I imagine there would be
by quicklime 6y ago
Does Trump have the power to just order a company to be broken up like this?
I get that there’s a national security angle to this, but I imagine there would be outrage if he unilaterally decided to break up Facebook, for example.
- est31 6y agoTrump is not acting totally unilaterally here. The intelligence community is critical of TikTok as well as multiple republican senators. In fact, it's even possible that the government is involved in this purchase in some form, by either using their good standing as big MS customers (how many federal employees run Windows+Ms Office computers?), or by offering money directly, something that is purported to have happened when Microsoft purchased Skype a few years ago. Getting rid of E2EE for Skype, which Microsoft eventually did, was a big request of the US intelligence community. Ultimately it'd be a good resolution to the issue. No more spying by China and American teenagers can safely continue using the app.