The fine was for Google or Apple if they kept the app on the app stores, or for any US service provider that continued to host their servers. ByteDance, which is not an American company (sort of the whole point of this law) cannot be fined by the US. They very well could have continued to run their servers from overseas and let the apps already on people's phones continue to connect...
...but they preferred to drive off the cliff themselves.
They could've moved the videos. The message here is pretty clear: ByteDance would rather walk away from the US market than hand over the keys to someone in the US.
But no US judgment will be enforced in China, explicitly, so we can't have a Chinese business doing a ton of business here, especially when they're influencing our idiot children.
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u/kgm2s-2 Jan 19 '25
The fine was for Google or Apple if they kept the app on the app stores, or for any US service provider that continued to host their servers. ByteDance, which is not an American company (sort of the whole point of this law) cannot be fined by the US. They very well could have continued to run their servers from overseas and let the apps already on people's phones continue to connect...
...but they preferred to drive off the cliff themselves.