Lots of discussion around this today - figured I'd post the raw text of the bill that was actually signed into law, H.R.815 - "Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes."
The bill itself does single out ByteDance presumably to ensure that they have no way of skirting around the whole Foreign Adversary Controlled thing, but separately from that, the bill is pretty specific around how it's determining whether an app is owned or beneficially controlled by a country that's an adversary of the United States.
Specifically:
> (4) FOREIGN ADVERSARY COUNTRY.—The term “foreign adversary country” means a country specified in section 4872(d)(2) of title 10, United States Code.
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 21.7 ms ] threadThe bill itself does single out ByteDance presumably to ensure that they have no way of skirting around the whole Foreign Adversary Controlled thing, but separately from that, the bill is pretty specific around how it's determining whether an app is owned or beneficially controlled by a country that's an adversary of the United States.
Specifically:
> (4) FOREIGN ADVERSARY COUNTRY.—The term “foreign adversary country” means a country specified in section 4872(d)(2) of title 10, United States Code.
The related section: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/4872
I wonder if someone could make a plausible "bills of attainder" argument.