Are there any other examples of something like this happening? A successful (foreign) app is forced to be sold to a US company just because of its country of origin? What happened to the free market? It's remarkable that privacy is even in the conversation when FAANG is just as bad

Not to mention that this is all just a distraction from the very real destruction Trump 2.0 is doing to peoples' lives, safety, financial outlooks, rights, etc and flushing our country and planet down to the toilet for his benefit

*edited for clarity and fixed typos

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smegma2 4 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, in 2020 Grindr was forced to sell for similar reasons.

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LetsGetTechnicl 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Today I learned! I remember it being sold to a Chinese company a few years ago, didn’t know it went back to US ownership. Ironically just deleted it because even with an Adblocker it’s still unusable with all the bots

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Jensson 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And why didn't people get up in arms over that?

	▲	smegma2 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Honestly I do wonder the same thing.