https://archive.ph/y6m67
Good. Not that i think Tiktok is that important for China, but it's always nice to stick it to the imperialists.
Of course the US government can still simply nationalize it and resell it, but it would force the US government to show how government actually works when it desires to.
how though? the assets are in China. best they could do is authorize a clone in the US but they'd lose the existing data in the process.
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EThis slowly feels more and more like the US cannot handle the idea of anyone else making something successful,
The USA is the leading tiktok-using country, I'll give them that. But according to this statista page, the following three countries already double the total of USA users.
That means ByteDance stands to lose way more by divesting themselves of TikTok than losing their USA audience. Not only are they isolating themselves diplomatically and economically from the rest of the world, now they're backing down in hubris culturally as well.
Although I really dislike the TikTok business model for obvious reasons, banning it on USA territory is going to be really nice for the whole TikTok ecosystem.
So, when poor oppressed Americans are going to start getting VPNs to escape their Great Firewall?
It would be really dumb for Bytedance to sell TikTok just because America wants them to. The rest of the world uses the internet too.
Wsj has seen better days. The quality of the writing is like 2/10, not to mention the content
It would be nice to see this train wreck of a privacy nightmare be banned rather than sold and perpetuated. Let's take FB and Google down in the same sweep and take back control of our data. This *** had been going on for too long.
They were targeted for being Chinese. If they sold to a US company they could double the privacy invasive practices and you wouldn't hear a peep. It's not about privacy, none of your legislators give a fuck about that. In fact they use private companies to spy on you to get around that pesky constitution which says they need warrants or special legislative carve-outs but nothing about them buying your data from private companies who collect it anyways.
The US could easily have passed a nearly guaranteed to pass judicial review (unlike this) broad bill aimed at forcing better privacy practices for all social media that would either force better privacy for users or drive these companies out of business or out of the US market. But that would target Facebook which has been one of the primary lobbyists behind the anti-tik-tok scare campaign because it is murdering them in the young people market and ad dollars for retirees are not quite as good as for the younger crowd and any social media stuck with only the old is destined to whither to irrelevancy.
This is a hit job, make no mistake. By Facebook and by western investors who have been unable to invest in it and thus profit from it unlike western social media so it has to go.
If anything actions like this prevent more people from having an honest conversation and understanding of the privacy and other issues of modern social media. By putting all the blame on it being Chinese and not examining the psychology, the privacy invasiveness, etc of all of these social media apps they prevent an honest conversation, honest questioning and discussion.
Meta (Facebook/Instagram) and Google (Youtube) are some of the main proponents of this ban, alongside AIPAC and the bloodthirsty neocon establishment. So if you're thinking this is some sort of privacy win, think again, it couldn't be anything further from the truth.
