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It doesn’t matter who the hell wants to buy TikTok if ByteDance still doesn’t want to sell.
I don’t know why we keep having these sorts of conversations when they’ve signalled they have no intent to give in to the demands of the US.
If anything large US companies signaling a desire to buy would make it less likely that a sale actually happens. The awareness that social media has the ability to influence users politically is very much there now and nobody wants that all in the hands of one country, especially one as adversarial as the US.
It’s only US Tiktok that’s under discussion for sale. Nobody’s talking about buying Tiktok globally.
And you think nobody outside of the US is interested in preventing the US from having a total propaganda stranglehold on their own population?
How would you prevent that? The US can just ban Tiktok anytime and gain that prop stranglehold.
But that would be a very unpopular move that might even be counter-productive while selling them Tiktok would just be handing them everything they want on a silver platter.
Do you think the current administration gives a shit if a move is unpopular? That’s their whole shtick.
The current administration is the one keeping TikTok alive in the US. Trump has delayed the ban twice now.
The ban already happened. There was nothing massively unpopular about it. And whoever lets the exemption lapse doesn’t have to take the heat for it, since they can just blame it on Biden.
It was massively unpopular among the relevant demographic, the Tiktok user. Those are the ones you would want to reach obviously.
Exactly, Bytedance is a lot more than TikTok and even then, the US users are neglectable.
They’ll probably ban it in the end.
Can’t have information not controled by the regime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C3QDPRWPUg
So after buying WaPo, bezos wants in on social media. Got to pump out the propaganda where the kids are
Already has twitch
Bezos wants his own X…
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Oh, hell no.
Yet another reason not to use that awful app.
Every billionaire competing to buy the world’s biggest megaphones…
That went really well with Twitch didn’t it…
They will never sell, certainly not to americans
And I want to buy the moon. So fucking what?
You really don’t see an issue here?
The issue is that the owner has said they don’t want to sell. The issue is blatant corruption is ruining everything.
I’d have been clearer if I were you.
