As of June 2022, 100% of all U.S. user traffic is routed to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in the United States, and today all access to that environment is managed exclusively by TikTok U.S. Data Security. We have begun the process of irretrievably deleting historic protected user data in our own Virginia and Singapore data centers; once that process is complete, it will effectively end all access to protected U.S. user data outside of TikTok USDS except under limited circumstances stipulated in our proposed national security agreement.
Guess that wasn't enough...
They control the user data, but not the algorithm and the moneys…
They are angry teens are getting radicalised by leftist anti-imperialist content, and they are jealous the new biggest thing is not owned by an American oligarch.
The best part about capitalism is that it loves a level playing field and when people can't provide a superior product the government steps in and bans the competition
And those people could fall foul of a new EO issued, that if becomes law will carry some heavy penalties
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=4c6f5729-81ec-43e6-9a85-6dbd8c085222
Here's what could happen next
I'm guessing a
lawsuit, weird that's not even mentionedIf it happens nothing of value will be lost. I say if because ByteDance has almost certainly already created a western shell company backed by Chinese billionaires to buy TikTok and keep it running.
