Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say

A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  LMAO, apt name. You do know that facebook, a known disinformation company, is american, right?

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, and they should be shut down too.

    You’re point?

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    • Muscar@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re doing well with living up to your username.

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      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This why I love my username. Cause anyone that has a proper, well thought out retort will provide their proper, well thought out retort.

        Jackasses that want to pretend they are still on reddit and have nothing to contribute, however, just love to throw the “hurr hurrr ur usarname r dum cuz u r dum lol me supar smartest” type comments.

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    • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, I’m not a point. Oh, you mean your point. Funny how you don’t know that, as an American.

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      • Hootz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Generally these days someone who uses grammer and spelling as an attack kinda automatically looses the argument.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Burn them all.

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  • EurekaStockade@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t recall the previous commenter mentioning anything about Facebook. Making a comment that is anti something doesn’t mean they’re pro something else.

    Step 1: Feel like getting into a comment section argument

    Step 2: Put words in the other guy’s mouth and argue against those

    Step 3: Make yourself look like a bit of a tool

    Is this the best use of your time?

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• ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As if an American company wouldn’t just pick up where they left off… have you seen Meta?

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• emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe they are willing to sell and are just saying this to drive up the price.

  Or maybe they don’t want a competitor to have access to their secret algorithm, and threaten them globally. This way they lose only one market.

  Another possibility is that they will teach users how to use a VPN, and are confident that enough of their users will do it.

  Or maybe they think saying they’re willing to shut down will make some of their users lobby against this bill / organise protests / call their representatives. (This probably won’t work.)

  Companies are ultimately motivated by money. They will do whatever underhanded trick they can think up to get it.

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• nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They are free to sell to non American companies just fine as long as the new company is not ultimately controlled by the Chinese government.

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