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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 15h \ parent \ on: Bloomberg Reports: China Considers Selling TikTok U.S. Operations to Musk news
Ah, I was about to say, isn't he buddies with some of the biggest names in tech? Paypal mafia guy. I see what you are saying now. I was not aware of that.
Do you not think this is a massive over-reach of the government into the free market? Forcing a foreign company to either be banned or sell? I can't see conservatives liking this if it were done to a US company. I mean, China does this to the US with companies like Apple.
I have many issues with this whole thing beyond that. It just smells to me. I don't buy the national security aspect of it. I don't trust politicians. The CCP is in our phone networks. The US gov has fought against secure platforms for years and is now recommending encrypted apps.
Its all so stupid to me. I don't trust liars. I can't get past the hypocrisy and take their word for anything.
I wonder how jaded you will be after more time working in Washington. I can't imagine you not becoming jaded. Everyone I know personally that has been in politics save one is jaded by it.
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I personally am torn in both ways and can see both sides for a few different reasons.
  1. Like you said China already does this to the US so why should we give them free reign. TikTok isn't even allowed inside their own country which I find to be a bit of a red flag. If China wants to stop stealing shit that's great and a positive step but they aren't going to stop and it arguably gives them an unfair tech advantage.
  2. The US fucked up when they initially passed the Rip and Replace legislation in 2021. They never funded it like they should of and that made us easily a target. Congress had a solution and just flat out fumbled it only to fund it I want to say end of '24ish... which should cover the costs to address the most basic flaws in the networks.
  3. Project Texas was supposed to address this whole issue with TikTok but something happened. If you remember there were very vocal Members of Congress who went into the classified briefing and came out of that singing a whole different tune. Given what we have seen in I want to say Moldova and Romania's elections and the unchecked foreign interference I think the US at this point would rather it be a company under their jurisdiction so that they could fine or penalize them in some way shape or form. TikTok right now is outside the US jurisdiction.
  4. However unlike other social media's TikTok has knocked it out of the park when it has come to empower small business. What they have done is truly remarkable and other social media's should be working to apply this to their platforms instead of so much pay to play like we see now. Plus there algorithm is just chefs kiss. I say this as someone who on my personal phone had music.ly on my phone and had no idea it was bought by Bytedance and renamed to TikTok... Whenever coworkers ask why I have it I just tell them I fucked up and the Chinese bought my data 7/8 years ago and I was SOL since then.
  5. A lot of people are going to be hurt by this be it the influencers directly or the businesses that generate their revenue from TikTok and are able to employee people because of that. I think it is a wait and see who is going to blink first kind of thing but I cannot say for sure. If TikTok loses America there was a article I was reading about how it will essentially tank the whole app because so much of its $ comes from the English speaking side and how that is mostly made up of either American influencers or American businesses.
Since the CCP does have a direct link into the company and a Golden Share at that it is an issue. They are one of 6 countries on the foreign advisory lists after all and there are consequences and punishments for that. People might say now they do not care about China having their data but I don't think they understand the size and scope of it and the enormous impacts it can have.
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