Comment on Amazon wants to buy TikTok
PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoOf course. But on the other hand: Who else would?
It’s not like Bob from Des Moines is going to find $100 billion behind the sofa cushions to buy it. There aren’t that many companies with much higher valuations.
hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Oracle has been the most involved player for TikTok up to this point. Trump has also floated the idea of being government-owned.
kerrigan778@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They want to privatize the post office but make TikTok government owned… JFC…
IllNess@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Government owned under Musk. Basically Musk wants to control it while we pay for it.
Disgusting.
ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
So they can use it to spread right wing bollocks, cause at the minute it’s (probably) a little bit of everything.
It’s fucked up, and I had to read that twice, but it’s not really surprising.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s the only big social media not regime controled.
social media
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Oracle would be worse…
ebolapie@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No no, look what they did with Sun.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yup, expect paywalls, lock-in, and relentless profit-maximization.
The silver lining is that they seem to care more about your wallet than your data, though they’ll hoover up both if given the chance.