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Here are the letters that convinced Google and Apple to keep TikTok online
This is why the law banning TikTok doesn’t matter.
A Freedom of Information Act request has produced letters that the US Department of Justice sent to Google, Apple, Amazon, and several other companies in order to assuage their concerns about breaking a law that banned US web services from working with TikTok. The documents — obtained by Zhaocheng Anthony Tan, a Google shareholder who sued for their release earlier this year — show Attorney General Pam Bondi and her predecessor Acting Attorney General James McHenry III promising to release companies from responsibility for violating the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which required US companies to ban TikTok from app stores and other platforms or face hundreds of billions of dollars in fines. Apple Google Amazon Microsoft Akamai Technologies Digital Realty Trust Fastly T-Mobile US Oracle LG Electronics USA
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