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khuey
on Aug 7, 2020
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US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat i...
Seems pretty weak to be honest. Definitely not the "American Great Firewall" that some were predicting.
joe_the_user
on Aug 7, 2020
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After 45 days, would anyone logging into a Wechat server in China be guilty of circumventing an embargo? Would they have to actually be sending money?
khuey
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Unclear, but defining accessing a server as a "transaction" for these purposes would be extremely aggressive, difficult to enforce, and challenged in court.
mlindner
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That would fail freedom of speech issues, so no.
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