US moves to force ByteDance to sell TikTok
ByteDance aren't going to give up the juicy algorithm in the deal though, apparently.
It's like buying KFC without the secret recipe.
I love TikTok. After HN, it's the place where I get most of my tech news.
Tiktok probably will move out of US market then
US market is great to have, but there is still the rest of the world too
This is getting the most extreme social mind control tool mankind has ever created out of the hands of a government that did Tianemen Square and is doing the Uygers right now. A government who controls all under its purview with an iron fist, and shares absolutely zero common interests with any young person in the west.
The resistance to it on this forum, of all places, is kind of incredible.
Even if they sell it (or "sell" it) wouldn't it remain a "security risk" as it probably has government agents working as programmers (even more than other big tech)?
How would this actually work? How would the US force a Chinese company to sell? What if they didn't?
Whenever the EU forces US companies to do something, we get collective outrage on here. So I was wondering: Can we get some collective outrage for this as well?
Otherwise I can just conclude that there's a double standard about this kind of thing here.
What are the arguments to establish that tiktok poses a national security threat ?
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The American/western hearts and minds are a playing field and a battleground, which the rogue powers are struggling to control at the moment.
Control the media and people's ability to consume information but give people the illusion it's free and open.
Platforms such as this, and any Western one is tightly controlled.
Tiktok, the outlier and it needs to be brought into the fold asap. Instagram, Facebook, YouTube's censorship of Gaza's conflict are abiding by the memo by silencing voices speaking up.
What happened to the liberty and fairness we're so fond of? Who's going to build products and create new platforms this way?
Good thing for x
I thought America believed in capitalism and the free market? This seems to be the opposite of that philosophy.
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