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> It's a Chinese company, why would they care about the US trying to sue them? If they had no physical, legal, and financial presence in the US, then sure, it
by filoleg 2y ago
> It's a Chinese company, why would they care about the US trying to sue them?
If they had no physical, legal, and financial presence in the US, then sure, it would be somewhat impossible to sue them.
However, TikTok is registered as a legal business entity in the US, they have employees in the US working for that business entity, they have physical properties (that they likely lease) where said employees work, and they have money going through their US accounts.
In the TikTok scenario specifically, it makes perfect sense to me why and how the US would sue them.
- mech422 2y agoI would assume that would all go away if they get banned, which brings you back to hard to sue them?
- filoleg 2y agoI would assume yes, but it will all depend on how that corporate wind-down would go down. And I have zero idea how that goes, because it isn’t like TikTok assets and corporate liabilities just go poof overnight in the US on the day of the ban. They gotta be winded down somehow, and I am afraid that level of detail is significantly above my paygrade. Also, I am not even sure that this applies here, as I couldnt even find anything about the US government suing TikTok. All I could find was that TikTok is the one that filed with the US courts to fight the bill that is getting them banned, i.e., they are the ones actually suing the US government[0]. 0. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-05-15/tiktok-creators-sue-u-s-government-in-a-bid-to-stop-potential-ban https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/20...