@arstechnica 4 years ago, #China updated their export control laws to effectively block any potential sale of #TikTok.
The only options are to shut down the American subsidiary (maybe continuing service from Europe), and to go to the federal supreme court claiming that the bill violates the First Amendment. On Zhihu most think the former outcome is very likely.
Maybe we can start to bet on the outcome of the East Asian theater of #WorldWar3.
For the country of "freedom" it works like this: "Freedom" is as long as I'm winning, when I find a competitor as good as me, then the censorship begins...