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Because it's unconstitutional to make a law that targets a specific person or company. They have to be subtle and use generic terms to describe who is affected
by jedberg 4y ago
Because it's unconstitutional to make a law that targets a specific person or company. They have to be subtle and use generic terms to describe who is affected by the law in a way where TikTok ends up being the only company that qualifies right now.
It's also good practice because it prevents TikTok from just making a new company that is exactly the same.
Edit: changed illegal to unconstitutional because someone below was confused.
- setgree 4y agoIt is not illegal for Congress to target specific products. I do not know where you got that impression. Laws can be deemed unconstitutional upon review, but Congress literally defines what is legal or not.
- ABeeSea 4y agoThat’s just being pedantic. The constitution explicitly bans bills of attainder so any law targeting a specific person or company will be struck down.
- epylar 4y agoNot necessarily. Only if the Supreme Court hears the case and agrees.
- cbsmith 4y agoLower courts can rule on it and provide injunctions. If it is appealed and the Supreme Court hears it, then it matters if they agree or not.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> The constitution explicitly bans bills of attainder so any law targeting a specific person or company will be struck down. The law must be both specific and punitive to be a bill of attainder. A law can nonpunitively regulate a “class of one” without being a Bill of Attainder. See, Nixon v. Administrator of General Services, 433 U.S. 425 (1977). [0] So, it is not quite accurate that “any law targeting a specific person or company will be struck down”. OTOH, a “TikTok ban” based on asserted prior misconduct would pretty surely be seen as punitive. [0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/433/425 https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/433/425
- TeeMassive 4y agoExplain Coca-Cola and Walt Disney
- jedberg 4y agoThey are big companies that have lobbied for laws that benefit them and had them written in ways that benefit them the most? I’m not even sure what you’re talking about.
- TeeMassive 4y agoCoca-Cola was the only company that could import coca leafs in industrial quantity. Also, "save Mickey Mouse Act"