Assian_Candor [comrade/them] to news • 5 months agoByteDance would rather shut down tiktok than sell itimagemessage-square120 fedilinkarrow-up1269file-text
arrow-up1269imageByteDance would rather shut down tiktok than sell itAssian_Candor [comrade/them] to news • 5 months agomessage-square120 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
https://www.reuters.com/technology/bytedance-prefers-tiktok-shutdown-us-if-legal-options-fail-sources-say-2024-04-25/
minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mlhexbear59·5 months ago<15% of Tiktok's monthly user base are American. They wouldn't shut the entire app down, just the US portion, which is already more expensive because they implemented US-only servers and moderation they don't do for other countries in 2022. linkfedilink
minus-squareAcidLeaves [he/him, he/him]hexbear39·edit-25 months agoNot to mention they have almost 10k US employees, 2k of them being engineers averaging ~400k salaries Meanwhile senior ByteDance engineers in China make like 100k USD link
<15% of Tiktok's monthly user base are American. They wouldn't shut the entire app down, just the US portion, which is already more expensive because they implemented US-only servers and moderation they don't do for other countries in 2022.
Not to mention they have almost 10k US employees, 2k of them being engineers averaging ~400k salaries
Meanwhile senior ByteDance engineers in China make like 100k USD