Tiktok has denied that rumor
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TikTok has called a report that China is considering allowing a sale of the social media company's US operations to...
Oh look, it's bullshit
Christ. This guy just can't help himself.
Like this guy needs more companies.
There's already a mass exodus to RedNote, and I gotta say, I love that there are no ads.
No ads yet...
That will get banned too if the bill goes into effect.
Sure, which is why installing it is largely a protest. I don't think US tiktokkers are going to seriously learn pinyin so they can properly tag their post.
Protests are supposed to inconvenience the institution and other people not involved in the situation so that they empathize and push for change. This isn't a particularly good protest if it's not doing those things. It doesn't seem to be inconveniencing the supreme Court, the federal government, or people who don't use tik tok so ...
Protest can also be a form of art and memetic transmission. Don't be so quick to dismiss others.
Another Chinese app
I think that's the point... Its a protest, and RedNote doesn't even pretend that it isn't a part of the CCP. The tiktok users know this, they are just trying to give the biggest middle finger they can.
Middle finger saying “yah, we want the CCP to control our apps!”
It's a protest, it won't last forever. Americans aren't going to learn Mandarin fluently.
99% off the comments are in Mandarin, and like 50% of the UI is still in Mandarin even from US app stores.
Given that I live in America, I'd rather China controlling my apps than the American government.
Musk lost a lot of money on his last social media company purchase, Twitter, after spending some time in court trying to abort the purchase. I'm not at all sure that he wants to buy another social media company.
It was and never will be about how much it cost or lost.
It was always about the dismantling of lefty spaces, the control of speech, and a pulpit to announce his decrees as a disciple of baphomet and kek.
170 million Americans and all their data suddenly under his authority would be worth more than you could imagine. That worth would not be in any currency.
It was always about the dismantling of lefty spaces,
Hmm these "allies" appear to be unreliable, I wonder why
He got so much more out of Twitter than we could have imagined, he lit the USA on fire with it, that's worth much more than the couple of billion lost. I think TikTok is even more powerful than Twitter.
It's a match made in heaven, win, win, win for every autocrat involved.
Twitter ended up inadvertently turning to his favor though. It has turned into even more of a hotbed for unchecked, uneducated and loud morons from alt-right/qanon/incel/republicans.
He gets TikTok though, it'll just be another platform to blast full volume even more.
The guy is stupid rich, he could theoretically buy Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp and Reddit if he wanted to. He's just not choosing to at this time.
The guy is stupid rich, he could theoretically buy Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp
Poor understanding of US oligarchy detected
Poorer understanding of money and value was detected.
Elmo: hold my twitter!
Tiktok is doomed.
Let's that sink in