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submitted 1 year ago by lautan@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

TikTok is taking the US government to court.

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[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What would give them standing? They'd have to be an entity protected by the constitution to claim that protection was harmed. Is it this (Wikipedia)?

TikTok Ltd was incorporated in the Cayman Islands and is based in both Singapore and Los Angeles. source

I guess I've never thought about what makes an entity have rights here. Buckingham Palace couldn't just open shop here and start suing our government, right?

[-] cyrus@sopuli.xyz 47 points 1 year ago

The case is essentially "hey you kinda passed a bill that's against your own constitution? You're kinda supposed to follow that..."

[-] riplin@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

The constitution applies to the government, not the American (or other) people. “Government shall pass no law…”

[-] yildolw@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

List of companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands: https://capedge.com/company/by/incState/E9/active/true?sort=latestQuote.marketCap

Mostly obscure to me, but I looked up GlobalFoundries. Originally divested from AMD, bought IBM's chip business, got a contract from US Department of Defense in 2023 for manufacturing military chips

I imagine you wouldn't object to GlobalFoundries suing the US government

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Of course, corporations are people and this is bigotry. Check mate.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We decided a while ago that the Constitution protects everyone and every thing in the US because the loophole of declaring people and companies to not be protected was too dystopian even for conservatives at the time.

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