Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it
RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 2 months agoFirst off, source? Second, the npr interview I heard mentioned specifically that China has to approve the sale because the algorithm is proprietary to a Chinese company. So anyone “buying TikTok” is buying a name and none of the actual bones of the social media platform
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 2 months ago
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Not who you were replying to, and not an interview, but here’s an NPR article that explains that the content-recommendation algorithms would be difficult to sell
Chinese officials have placed content-recommendation algorithms on what is known as an export-control list, meaning the government has additional say over how the technology is ever sold.
reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Neat, ty!
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Aren’t the bones the cheap part now? Think truth social for instance, why was it supposedly worth so much if anyone can spin up a Mastadon instance and make it the same restrictions over the weekend. The usernase numbers are all that mattered there I assume. Why is reddit worth more than Lemmy? Is it because the bones are expensive? Or is it that they have access to a large usernase already.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
the reason truth social was so highly valued is probably related to trumps chronic addiction to over valuing his assets by about 10-100x the original value of them.