Marvel Rivals banned in the US alongside TikTok?

[Shasato]

Tiktok is getting banned in the US because of a chinese company has a large investment in the Singaporean company TikTok. The legislation doesn't specifically target Tiktok, but instead prevents foreign companies from accessing american data through apps, investments, and other digital means. I personally disagree with this course of action, but here we are.

Marvel Rivals is owned, developed, and run by a chinese development company NetEase. Tencent, a chinese investment firm, owns 40% of Epic Games.

Will Marvel Rivals and Fortnite get banned in the US?

[Squidvasion]

yeah

[JewJitsu]

yes

[󠀡󠀡]

rage bait use to be believable. Are iphones going to be banned next or the clothes we wear?

[Trollified]

half of the defense industry is owned by Israeli citizens. Just a heads up. They are the real threat

[B00MSTICK]

Not likely. The law has other elements than just who owns it. It also specifies the type of app that it applies to and it states that the President has to declare the app a threat to national security. I think the President is gonna have more things to work on than Marvel Rivals.

[Shasato]

Originally posted by B00MSTICK:

Not likely. The law has other elements than just who owns it. It also specifies the type of app that it applies to and it states that the President has to declare the app a threat to national security. I think the President is gonna have more things to work on than Marvel Rivals.

Thanks I appreciate the additional context that clears it up

[Syrin]

No, it's not farming data as far as we know

[Syrin]

Tik Tok is on a scale LOGARITHMICLY larger than this

[Mellanie94]

Lucky i dont live in America.
The partly Loot box bans from the Netherlands are already enough for me.

[Bloodwyrm Wildheart]

Originally posted by Trollified:

half of the defense industry is owned by Israeli citizens. Just a heads up. They are the real threat

This guy gets it.

Originally posted by Mellanie94:

Lucky i dont live in America.
The partly Loot box bans from the Netherlands are already enough for me.

Loot box bans are a good thing.
Lootboxes are predatory gambling. They have no place in video games.
Casinos, perhaps, but not video games.

[HughManatee]

Tencent completely owns Riot, according to Wikipedia. I would love to see them ban Riot.

[KFCxEXTRACRISPY]

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡:

rage bait use to be believable. Are iphones going to be banned next or the clothes we wear?

I mean upcoming tariffs will in fact ban some clothes you maybe wanted and also increase the price of your phone sooooo not to far off tbh

[WraithNWhimsy]

Only time will tell. Marvel Snap is down and that was one I wasn't expecting

[Enifo]

dang youre right i was just playing it this morning

[mcnichoj]

TikTok can pull sensitive data and key log your phone. If a game has a key logger in it, Steam itself will ban the game.