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The TikTok ban doesn’t: “any transaction by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, with ByteDance Ltd.” But ByteDance doesn’t own anything else in the US, so that shouldn’t be as much a problem.
 
Wouldn’t that still affect users who have big followings and sponsorship deals and such?
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Specifically mentions Tencent, which has a stake in a lot of video game companies, including the likes of Blizzard, Epic, Ubisoft, Riot, etc.  
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That last bit sounds really important, because it Sounds like nothing’s been defined right now…..which makes this EO feel even more like incompetence
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@doloresbridge  
Maybe. They’re not making money from ByteDance directly, the way monetized YouTube channels work. But a broad enough reading of “transaction” could stop them. The main thing this kills is TikTok’s own ad revenue.
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@Background Human  
Considering the fact that our government once ruled that farmers couldn’t grow their own feed for personal use under the commence claws I bet they could have a wide reading on transaction as well to affect them.
 
 
@Dustcan  
LOL! Though I’m honestly iffy on such interventions for “national security” (even if I do agree that those apps are security issues) can’t say I feel to much sympathy for the companies that could be victims of it.
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Section a is referring to WeChat, not simply Tencent. Again, you see the difference with the Tiktok order, which refers not to Tiktok, but to ByteDance. They are targeting WeChat. Not videogames.
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@Metro_Offset  
Maybe it’s the grammar. Like people are parsing it as two clauses: “any transaction related to WeChat” and “any transaction with Tencent Holdings Ltd.” I don’t know how you fix that. If there’s a way to clean up the legalese, make it clearer.
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Here are all the things owned by Tencent by shares in the company and investments in some.  
Riot Games(Full owned)  
Funcom(Full owned)  
Sharkmob(Full owned)  
80% Grinding Gear Games  
84% Supercell  
40% Epic Games  
20% Mavelous  
18.6% iDreamsky  
5% Funplus  
17.66% New Marble  
15% Glu Mobile  
13.54% Kakao  
9% Frontier Developments  
5% Activision  
5% Paradox interactive  
5% Ubisoft  
1.5% Blue Hole  
Other companies.  
Majority ownership of Miniclip  
Capital investment in Platinum Games  
Minority share Yager Development.
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As much as I hate those companies, I don’t like the precedent that the guy at the top can just put the kibosh on privately owned companies like that.
 
I’m not entirely sure if it falls under his purview either.
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