Comment on Amazon wants to buy TikTok
taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoIf 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 3 weeks ago
It’s only US Tiktok that’s under discussion for sale. Nobody’s talking about buying Tiktok globally.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 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 3 weeks ago
How would you prevent that? The US can ban just ban Tiktok anytime and gain that prop stranglehold.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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.