This means absolutely nothing.
How much of their advertising revenue comes from the US. They have shopping, I’ll bet the US buys the most.
China already has livestream shopping, it’s still relatively novel in the US. Bytedance has to compete with other local competitors in China, hating a nice external source of revenue in the US fuelling these Chinese battle is a huge boon.
Album@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
It’s almost like making money is not the primary purpose of this website 🤔
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Or … maybe the US isn’t the only country in the world?
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Lmao yeah OK 👍. Name any other country.
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
I have a Geography degree lmao, but also, you’re an asshole.
Album@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Fwiw I’m not American.
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
It’s not worth anything, your argument was that the US being such a small percentage of tiktoks profit meant that the American market is only worthwhile to TikTok as a spying tool. Which does make any sense.
I’m saying that tiktok has other markets in other countries, and the US only represents a small part of their global reach, so of course tiktok would only be a small percentage of their userbase.
Woozythebear@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah same with Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, fox news, CNN, News max, Msnbc and every single other media outlet by that logic. Apparently any company not owned Merica is propaganda too.
Buttons@programming.dev 6 months ago
I’ve always wondered what would happen if ByteDance sells TikTok for $5 to a US Citizen who frequently visits China for lavish vacations, and that US Citizen decide to keep all the algorithms the same.
If China has an ulterior motive with TIkTok, can’t they just find a US Citizen to carry out their ulterior motive?
Serinus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No. The bill is quite specific about that.
Heresy_generator@kbin.social 6 months ago
[If we can't swamp Americans with CCP produced propaganda then there's no point in even site even existing]