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Last I checked TikTok has a huge office in London. They’re not invulnerable to penalties.

• 1attice 4y ago
  No, but UK enforcement is now quite vulnerable to, say, an HQ move to Paris. Wouldn't want those jobs to go missing during a Brexit war deepfreeze winter. A pity there wasn't some way of harmonizing laws and enforcement with other nearby nation-states. Some sort of "Union". Thinking aloud
  • anakaine 4y ago
    You could probably put a bunch of spin on it that "China has been committing human rights abuses right here in the UK", "threatening journalists", "accessing personal data to track them in their home life", and that "as the government of the people we say that this is not ok". A move to Paris will both optically look, and could again be headlined as TikTok trying to skirt the rule of law to make sure they can keep stealing your data. Announce some extra investment into tech industries using the fines collected from TikTok, using any assets you may have frozen and prevented from leaving the country if needs be, in order to bolster jobs. I think the government of the day could spin it into a PR win.
    • 1attice 4y ago
      This seems like a lot of typing for what, up until Brexit Got Done, could have been expressed with the two-character word "no", as in, "no, ByteDance, no." Now it's 'optics' and geopolitics. These two scenarios are not equivalent. One gives ByteDance vastly more leverage.
  • b800h 4y ago
    Agree, we should extend this as far as possible and harmonise everything globally via the UN. Right?