Well, yes, it is actually pretty normal for suspected criminal businesses. What's unusual is that this one has their own publicity engine. Americans are just having trouble coping with the idea of a corporation being held liable for crimes.

More normally it looks like e.g. this in the UK: https://news.sky.com/video/police-raid-hundreds-of-businesse...

CyberGEND more often seem to do smalltime copyright infringement enforcement, but there are a number of authorities with the right to conduct raids.

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learingsci 2 hours ago | parent [-]

“Americans are just having trouble coping with the idea of a corporation being held liable for crimes.”

I’m sorry but that’s absurd even amidst the cacophony of absurdity that comprises public discourse these days.

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Rygian 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'll bite.

How was TikTok held liable for the crimes it was accused of?

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pjc50 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Was it ever actually accused of crimes? Was it raided? Was there a list of charges?

It always seemed to me that TikTok was doing the same things that US based social networks were doing, and the only problem various parties could agree on with this was that it was foreign-owned.

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throwpoaster an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It was force-sold to Oracle.

	▲	watwut an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That had more to do with wish to control it and steal it then crimes.

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learingsci 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

American companies held liable for crimes include Bank of America ($87B in penalties), Purdue Pharma (opioid crisis), Pfizer for fraudulent drug marketing, Enron for accounting fraud. Everyone on hn should know about FTX, Theranos, I mean come on.

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malfist an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Corporations routinely get a slap on the wrist (seconds of profitability), not required to admit guilt, or deferred prosecution agreements.