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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C3QDPRWPUg
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Stovetop@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
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.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
It’s only US Tiktok that’s under discussion for sale. Nobody’s talking about buying Tiktok globally.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
And you think nobody outside of the US is interested in preventing the US from having a total propaganda stranglehold on their own population?
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
How would you prevent that? The US can ban just ban Tiktok anytime and gain that prop stranglehold.