ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US (www.androidauthority.com)
from Dragxito@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 07:46
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spookex@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 08:11 next collapse

Even better

Juice88@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 08:27 next collapse

✌🏽

Vendul@feddit.de on 27 Apr 2024 09:30 next collapse

We tried that with facebook in the eu. Didn’t work

TimeSquirrel@kbin.social on 27 Apr 2024 11:24 next collapse

Me, an American, to my German cousin:

"So, yeah, I'm changing email addresses, here's my new one."

"Email? Are you using WhatsApp?"

"Er, no, how about text?"

"We all have WhatsApp."

"Okay, maybe Google Chat?"

"WhatsApp? WhatsApp."

LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 16:48 next collapse

I’ve had basically the same conversation with my sister who lives in Albania. I just want to use something encrypted like signal but she just refuses and says it’s either WhatsApp or Facebook messenger. Cause of that I barely talk to her.

makingrain@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 21:09 collapse

WhatsApp is e2e encrypted. It uses the same tech as Signal.

slumberlust@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 21:46 next collapse

The owner is a problem though.

pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 28 Apr 2024 10:33 collapse

bring fediverse flags to Eurovision then.

impure9435@kbin.run on 27 Apr 2024 23:42 collapse

*allegedly

No one knows for sure, since WhatsApp is proprietary

makingrain@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 08:40 collapse

So are Signal’s serverside components.

impure9435@kbin.run on 28 Apr 2024 08:44 collapse

Uh, no? I don't know who told you this lie, but https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

Btw it wouldn't even matter, since the encryption happens in the client app. The server basically just passes around encrypted pieces of data between devices.

MisterFrog@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 2024 12:32 collapse

Here’s the trick (maybe): “Don’t you know that WhatsApp is owned by Meta and collecting information on your chat metadata (who you chat to, when, your contacts, their contacts).”

Tell them to get Signal. If there’s any country on this planet where convincing people to use Signal is easier, it must be Germany. GMaps streetview was banned there until recently, everyone uses fake names on Facebook, if they even made one in the first place.

Surely they must be amenable to Signal

Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Apr 2024 23:34 collapse

We’re gonna try harder next time

clot27@lemm.ee on 27 Apr 2024 09:39 next collapse

For good

ABCDE@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 09:52 next collapse

Very unlikely.

carl_dungeon@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 09:54 next collapse

Bye Felecia

lung@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 09:58 next collapse

Back to Vine we go

Onii-Chan@kbin.social on 27 Apr 2024 10:12 next collapse

Cool, please do.

FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 11:08 next collapse

Awesome, do META next please!

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works on 27 Apr 2024 11:18 next collapse

Before X?

[deleted] on 27 Apr 2024 11:23 next collapse

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ripcord@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 15:21 next collapse

Boy I’d love it if that were really true.

Way way way way too many idiots still going there.

Wahots@pawb.social on 29 Apr 2024 05:02 collapse

Elon Musk vs. Twitter, lol (timestamped)

youtu.be/oK9oPk8bsvk?t=39s

PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks on 29 Apr 2024 05:02 collapse

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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 23:11 collapse

You can make a good case for breaking up Facebook. Twitter is just twitter and is slowly eating itself. Eventually, the advertisers will see just how much of the userbase are bots and either pull or negotiate for lower rates.

trebuchet@lemmy.ml on 27 Apr 2024 12:31 next collapse

But how does that help capitalists make more money by eliminating their competition?

[deleted] on 28 Apr 2024 00:56 next collapse

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FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 14:55 collapse

As far as I’m concerned META ruined the Oculus. As soon as they bought them out, I bought a Vive (which has worked great for years).

spyd3r@sh.itjust.works on 28 Apr 2024 23:12 collapse

Never happen, why would the government shut down one of its favorite surveillance tools.

Jaysyn@kbin.social on 27 Apr 2024 11:36 next collapse

If money wasn't the point, then influence was. Congress is right to shut them down.

Foreign owned, FARA-unregistered influence operations have never been a facet of "free speech" in the USA.

peopleproblems@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 11:45 next collapse

It’s pretty weird that they’d admit it.

The smart move would have been to sell it and take the L, and use the new money to build the next thing.

TheUncannyObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Apr 2024 23:06 next collapse

I mean, not on the surface. But lobby groups working for foreign governments operate in Washington to this day, and they’re ignored because Congress doesn’t want to shut the money tap off.

Maggoty@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 23:54 next collapse

Money is still the point. There’s an entire world outside the US.

Specal@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 17:13 collapse

They’d lose money in a sale as they’d lose their IP.

Vent@lemm.ee on 27 Apr 2024 12:55 next collapse

If they said or implied anything else, they would lose all leverage. The public couldn’t care less about who owns tiktok, so they need people to think they’ll lose it to have any public support.

adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev on 27 Apr 2024 12:59 next collapse

Let’s be honest, this is only their outlook until the courts make their decision. They’ll sell if that doesn’t go in their favour.

squid_slime@lemm.ee on 27 Apr 2024 13:12 next collapse

I do wonder if this is america being anti communist as history has shown before. Not to say China is actually communist but the economic system is hybrid socialist/capitalist and China is catching up or surpassing america so with this said what’s to say america starts using this tactic against more of chinas Chinese owned exports?

Beyond that america has meta which has done much the same as tiktok, targeting youth, furthering mental health issue, spying, anti trust and coverups yet they get a slap on the wrists.

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 13:43 next collapse

Anti communist? With everything else we buy from China, this is the tipping point to be anti-communist? How about all the US social media platforms that China won’t let in? Is that “anti-capitalist?”

whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 27 Apr 2024 14:17 next collapse

Um yeah this is cold war type shit. It’s not a “tipping point”, just part of that broader context.

squid_slime@lemm.ee on 27 Apr 2024 14:29 collapse

socialism has always been anti capitalism. socialism is based on principles like international revolution and a highly configured economic structures whereas capitalism is extraction of capital which western countries have been doing in china as much as china will allow but this isn’t what i am arguing.

something to keep in mind is that we don’t buy tiktok, similarly to meta and alphabet (google).

brief easy to read history of cold war activity.

Cuba and North Korea (the forgotten war) are both good to look in to. i hope the history can bring context to my previous statement as geopolitics is never as it seems.

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 15:07 collapse

While I appreciate the additional info, that really doesn’t add to the conversation about what the tipping point is for the parent comment.

squid_slime@lemm.ee on 27 Apr 2024 15:25 collapse

i was not talking about a tipping point, i was focused on the geopolitics in my original comment.

Anti communist? With everything else we buy from China

would you argue America to be pro communist?

this is the tipping point to be anti-communist?

maybe but i’ll be honest, i dont know what you mean by this, the fight against communism has been a steady state of proxy wars, embargoes, surveillance and propaganda campaigns, so i would definitely say banning tiktok sits within embargo and propaganda.

How about all the US social media platforms that China won’t let in?

yea socialism is apposed/untrusting of capitalist products, usually seen as exploitive by the communist this is due in part to the never ending revolution.

Is that “anti-capitalist?”

100%

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 15:31 collapse

I didn’t argue that we are pro-communist.

The point of my observation was that the premise of the TikTok sale is “anti-communist” and that it’s being brought up at all against the background of all the existing, deep economic ties between the US and China. IOW the US putting its foot down on TikTok is anti-communist, but accepting everything else gets a pass?

Funny that you point out the mistrust of (in this context of social media) western products as being exploitative when the Chinese exploitation of data and use of algorithms to manipulate what we see on TikTok is exactly one of the reasons the US wants the sale.

squid_slime@lemm.ee on 27 Apr 2024 16:24 collapse

you make a good point that Tiktok is doing some shady stuff but meta were court covertly collecting data from Snapchat through unknowing users devices.

Facebook whistleblowers testimony where she speaks of fb knowing the harm the platform does, and knows that fb targets minors even though Facebook has a minimum age 13.

should Facebook be banned or at least forced to sell? this is why the fiasco is coming across as anti-communist, an extension of cold war hostilities.

IOW the US putting its foot down on TikTok is anti-communist, but accepting everything else gets a pass

Tiktok offers no financial incentive to America unlike Chinese exports, apple are not about to pay a reasonable amount to create an iPhone in America, china is in a pretty good position with its fabrication and engineering, consumer products or even solar panels are far superior to what America can make on a similar budget.

Funny that you point out the mistrust of (in this context of social media) western products as being exploitative when the Chinese exploitation of data and use of algorithms to manipulate what we see on TikTok is exactly one of the reasons the US wants the sale.

this is because you view things through a capitalist scope, i am guilty of this too. Facebook as linked in the above article does the same.

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 16:43 collapse

They are not the same. One manipulates and exploits its own country’s citizens for profit, the other exploits and manipulates both its own and citizens of other countries for profit and government data collection.

While TikTok doesn’t offer financial incentive to any US corporation, it certainly offers incentives to the users of the platform.

Let’s not move the goalposts/butwhatabout to talking about minors using social media or Chinese manufacturing, that’s too much to get into and keep it focused on the communist/capitalist debate and why TikTok is being treated as it is.

squid_slime@lemm.ee on 27 Apr 2024 17:14 collapse

Facebook isn’t shy from governments surveillance either.

this debate wont be answered in till documents either leak or become old enough to be declassified like what happened with some of the cold war documentation otherwise we’re arguing points of conjecture.

Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg on 27 Apr 2024 15:40 next collapse

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/…/677806/

It’s less about communism and more about authoritarianism. Even historically, communism was (IMO) just the trigger word associated with a slide into authoritarianism … which is what seemingly happened in countries that had a communist uprising to overthrow the government and broader “owning class.”

China seemed like they were on course to be a friendly communist country at one point, but they’ve slid back into authoritarianism under Xi.

I fully expect more hostility towards Chinese exports. Part of the reason for that is going to be that China is happy to use government money to subsidize certain industries to help gain dominance (Sherrod Brown - D Ohio) was recently speaking out about the risk Chinese subsidized EVs pose to the US auto industry domestically and internationally.

squid_slime@lemm.ee on 27 Apr 2024 16:54 collapse

communism is not innately authoritarian same with libertarianism and capitalism instead its bad actors that make it so and once bad actors get involved then communism is not meeting its definition. china is a weird one where its communist in name alone with its hybrid economic system and repressive regime which goes against core principles of socialism/communism. i think the death of the USSR which had lead the revolution, as well as the many western embargoes on socialist countries have soured relations.

if your interested in podcasts id like to recommend you listen to blowback as it follows US hostilities against socialism/communism. i believe its on several platforms

Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg on 27 Apr 2024 17:04 next collapse

A part of me genuinely would like to see communism work.

Another part of my looks at the past century and sees the same pattern of well meaning revolution to communism, that results in a corrupt government that owns and controls everything.

I don’t think the Russian people that got the ball rolling for the USSR were stupid or evil, but I also don’t think it worked out like they wanted… and I think that’s true of every other case of communism that’s been tried in practice.

Part of the problem is without ownership, you don’t own the situation. Which house is taken better care of, the one that’s rented or the one that’s owned?

Another social mind game, are you better off getting into an accident with 1 person around to call for help or 20? It’s been shown that when people can put off responsibility/assume someone else is going to “own” the situation, they do.

I think capitalism with regulation to keep money out of politics, mixed with more social programs (particularly socializing the insurance industry) makes the most sense.

squid_slime@lemm.ee on 27 Apr 2024 17:43 collapse

personally, communism in a capitalistic world is very hard.

Cuba wanted to break away from American capitalists and gangsters using Cuba to store money and exploit the Cubans for sugar plantations then the US sets embargoes, Cuba maintains its independence and manages to get its literacy level up to 1953—56% 1970—88% 1986—nearly 100% implemented free social health care with newly built hospitals and students had to work in small towns and villages for part of they’re doctorate. but American meddling was constant with the Cuban missile crises which laughable America clutched they’re purls whilst having setup nukes on the USSR’s doorstep as if that wasn’t threatening.

Cuba has sadly remained under the sanctions and is struggling to stay afloat.

its important to view economics outside of our place of living, while western life is so so although homelessness is forever on the rise but outside of these countries life is different and the people are very much exploited by capitalism whether through ford or amazon, this is why we live the way we do.

Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg on 27 Apr 2024 18:15 collapse

I agree with your last paragraph in particular, I think if we ever want to have a hope of capitalism, communism, or socialism it starts with teaching people “the cheapest option isn’t the best.”

I am fortunate to have a well paying job. I do not buy cheap third world or authoritarian made products unless I absolutely have to. I go out of my way to find products made in democracies that have stronger labor and environmental laws. A recent example, I could’ve gotten cheap placemats for my table or a cheap table off of Amazon or at a department store.

Instead, I paid local Amish carpenters to build me a table and bought placemats from a company in Indiana. I also encourage anyone and everyone who has the means to do the same. Try and look at the product beyond “what it does” and “what it costs you.” If nobody was willing to buy an iPhone made with slave labor, the gears at Apple would turn very very quickly.

Edit: And yes, it’s awful how we’ve treated our neighbors to the south.

squid_slime@lemm.ee on 27 Apr 2024 23:49 collapse

I agree with your last paragraph in particular, I think if we ever want to have a hope of capitalism, communism, or socialism it starts with teaching people “the cheapest option isn’t the best.”

i am glad you can take something from that, sadly while your doing your part in society it still leave others to be exploited and a few smart consumers wont stop this. capitalism is by design repressive, while it exploits me and you some what the people in Afghanistan, China, South America to name a few beer the true brunt of it. suicide nets around Chinese factories, opium doubling in Afghanistan since us meddling as well as political in stability and South America is treated like a stopping ground for the rich where they’ll own holiday homes hotel pricing locals out or run plantations.

i campaign with the socialist party, help with protests and union action, eventually i hope for international reforms.

if you’d be interested in hearing more about socialism id be more than happy to talk.

Railing5132@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 02:32 collapse

It may be simplistic, but the short version of what you seem to be saying at the beginning is: “every ‘-ism’ is inherently neutral until people get involved.”

Which is why I believe no system that is conceived by humans will ever be not exploited.

squid_slime@lemm.ee on 28 Apr 2024 03:06 collapse

This is very true, a knife isn’t inherently evil.

Though some systems are more susceptible to manipulation, dictatorships, free market capitalism and feudalism are some of the worst culprit’s.

Which is why I believe no system that is conceived by humans will ever be not exploited.

Sadly whilst we occupy the word in clusters of people we must have a system of governess

Railing5132@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 03:25 collapse

dictatorships, free market capitalism and feudalism are some of the worst culprit’s.

Agree. Thinking about it, the romantic in me wants to believe that the best system was probably the small indigenous tribal units. Collective social goals, group welfare, close-knit often matriarch families, conservation mindset…

A bit hard to pull off in the 21st century world though. :/

squid_slime@lemm.ee on 28 Apr 2024 12:13 collapse

Sounds like primitive communism, its dreamy but wouldn’t take much for a few tribes to consolidate power leading to a form of feudalism and class issue between different tribes.

This is something democratic socialism tries to address

Railing5132@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 15:52 collapse

I was going to include the social democracies of northern/central Europe as another better path, but it was really late and I was tired,and now I lost my train of thought. The Nordic countries, the Netherlands… while no system is perfect and every country has its challenges, these seem to exceed most on the measures that should matter.

usnews.com/…/well-developed-public-education-syst…

www.usnews.com/news/…/quality-of-life

www.usnews.com/news/…/social-purpose

www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/…/agility

AWittyUsername@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 22:17 collapse

It’s America being "anti criticise Israel "

JCreazy@midwest.social on 27 Apr 2024 13:41 next collapse

US should call their bluff. If Tiktok gets banned, people will complain for a little bit until people forget and move on to what’s next. Why doesn’t an American company make something that’s practically identical? People will be all desperate for their 5 second dopamine rush that they will download anything.

whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 27 Apr 2024 14:16 next collapse

They can’t, the algorithm is the best part about tiktok and none of the competitors come close.

havocpants@lemm.ee on 27 Apr 2024 14:41 collapse

That’s interesting, what’s so clever or original about its algorithm?

Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 15:11 next collapse

If I remember correctly from my rabbit hole, it tracks your viewing habits by a far wider list of variables and on a micromanaged scale. It can be annoying if you have someone sending you content you don’t like because viewing them will slot them into your feed immediately, but it’s just as quick to discard those things. I found it very easy to train for my interests in cooking, goblincore, and irrational humor.

slumberlust@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 21:40 collapse

Meanwhile, YT Shorts sees me watch one video then gives me nothing but that.

Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 2024 16:35 collapse

Personally I’ve not tried shorts, I don’t have any issues with it but I’ve only ever used YouTube for long form educational videos or horror fiction so it never has anything to offer me.

Sl00k@programming.dev on 28 Apr 2024 03:13 collapse

If you have to ask that question you definitely don’t use Tiktok it’s far far superior algorithmically than Reels and YT Shorts which are both absolute garbage.

niisyth@lemmy.ca on 27 Apr 2024 14:34 next collapse

India did this and Instagram reels is the main one that benefited. Probably be the same for US if it pulls through on this.

ripcord@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 15:19 next collapse

Vine.co returns!

Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg on 27 Apr 2024 15:31 collapse

I think Elon might just do that based on what I’ve been reading.

ovalofsand@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 20:15 next collapse

Dear god no

scarabic@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 01:12 next collapse

It would be his first good instinct. But bringing back the domain is t going to bring back the magic. Vine is dead and nothing Musked is going to be any fun.

runefehay@kbin.social on 28 Apr 2024 03:25 collapse

As I recall, the guy who makes Pixelfed (dansup?) is also working on a vine clone called loops. It looks like the site is https://loops.video/ Doesn't appear to be operational yet.

pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 28 Apr 2024 10:33 collapse

i never got to experience vine (and google+)

glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 27 Apr 2024 19:40 collapse

YouTube and Instagram already have identical features. Most US creators who post on Tik Tok also use those platforms already

FaizalR@kbin.social on 27 Apr 2024 13:56 next collapse

Leaving US in darkness

djsoren19@yiffit.net on 28 Apr 2024 17:08 collapse

TikTok users are already in darkness, unless you think it’s a happy coincidence that their algorithm suppresses anti-China views, support for Hong Kong, and support for Taiwan. Just because you can’t notice you’re being deceived doesn’t mean you aren’t.

whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 27 Apr 2024 14:20 next collapse

Y’all are dumb as hell for supporting this bill. It doesn’t just ban tiktok, it applies to any app with 20% or more ownership by any person/entity from a country that is a “foreign adversary”.

AProfessional@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 14:34 next collapse

Im not making a stance on it but I read more to it.

It seems very focused on “social media” as in software that is about users sharing their own content with other users with 1,000,000 monthly active users.

Those that support it on tiktok likely would for other similar services.

The part that stands out to me is it mentions real time communication. So Telegram probably counts.

[deleted] on 27 Apr 2024 14:37 next collapse

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Buttons@programming.dev on 27 Apr 2024 16:22 collapse

It lists the foreign adversaries, they aren’t just made up on a whim. Iran, N. Korea, China, Russia.

Where is WhatsApp based?

AProfessional@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 18:43 collapse

WhatsApp is American owned. You may be thinking of WeChat?

ripcord@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 15:23 next collapse

Ok…?

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca on 27 Apr 2024 18:41 next collapse

Sorry why should I be against that?

antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Apr 2024 19:25 next collapse

Not sure if you’ve been paying attention but citizens have no say over stuff like this. 99% of the politicians in office were placed there by rich people - they have the only true votes. The bill included money to Ukraine (great), and Israel (WTF), and Taiwan, and TikTok. It shouldn’t be legal to package all that stuff together, but it’s pretty standard. Anyway not sure who you’re talking to - there are like a few hundred politicians who supported this bill, most of them probably for other reasons, and none of them are on Lemmy.

whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 27 Apr 2024 20:04 collapse

Talking about the comments here.

antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Apr 2024 20:54 collapse

I see, well Lemmy is a bunch of Reddit refugees for the most part. Probably happy to see social media corps dying no matter how?

PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee on 27 Apr 2024 20:06 next collapse

…ok? You realize that actually makes it even better right?

HiT3k@midwest.social on 27 Apr 2024 23:31 next collapse

A lot of the users here are just butthurt anti social media people, not actually principled free speech or rule of law advocates. This ban is arguably unconstitutional and TikTok is being targeted for purely political reasons, not because of any credible threat to “national security.” This is some Patriot Act level overreach bullshit, but the clueless mainstream just clamors for it because CNN/Fox spends hours of airtime decrying the dangers of TikTok, and a fraction doing the same for Meta/X/Reddit.

impure9435@kbin.run on 27 Apr 2024 23:40 collapse

TikTok is literally controlled directly by the Chinese government, which is officially considered a foreign adversary (for a good reason)

HiT3k@midwest.social on 27 Apr 2024 23:43 collapse

Source?

impure9435@kbin.run on 27 Apr 2024 23:52 collapse

There are more than enough sources, just google "TikTok Chinese government influence". Just a few examples:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2023/07/26/tiktok-chinese-propaganda-ads-europe/

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/11/tiktok-china-us-elections-influence

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/11/china-is-using-tiktok-for-influence-campaigns-odni-says-00146336

Also, just think about it: The CCP loves spreading propaganda. There's a massive social media platform controlled by China, which is used by young people in foreign adversary nations. Why wouldn't they leverage this platform to spread their lies and influence people? It's literally the perfect opportunity.

HiT3k@midwest.social on 28 Apr 2024 00:07 next collapse

Wow. How predictable. Nothing you posted has anything to do with the Chinese government “literally directly controlling” TikTok, despite those being the exact words you chose and used.

Instead, you posted one story about TikTok in Europe running ads by the CCP, and two about the CCP using accounts on TikTok.

It’s a well known fact that the CCP runs accounts on Reddit and other socials. TikTok accepting and running ads from the CCP in Europe is a European problem. Could be addressed by updated regulations around ads, idk, I’m not European. Meta could run ads from the CCP or Russia in Europe, perhaps? Or maybe TikTok broke European advertising regulations. Still, has nothing to do with the USA.

So again, you people are repeating US intelligence propaganda about the Chinese government “owning and controlling” TikTok and then posting “proof” that proves nothing.

Try again?

Railing5132@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 03:09 collapse

It’s painfully apparent you have a fundamental lack of understanding of how the CCP works in relation to companies in China. Or how they behave on the world stage outside of your ech chamber. If they operate in a critical sector, they are controlled by the CCP. I mean, you do accept that the CCP is an oppressive, authoritarian regime, right? If you don’t accept that, then we can’t carry on because you’re not in the same reality or arguing in bad faith.

And before the defense: “but they’re really capitalists” - yeah, so what? Errybody greedy. Still doesn’t change that the CCP is an authoritarian regime. I have the feeling that no matter what, you’re going to move the goalposts because, I dunno, America bad? (and yeah, we’ve got a lot to account for and I’m no 'merica cheerleader). And no amount of evidence will sway you.

May you have the day you deserve.

[deleted] on 29 Apr 2024 03:47 collapse

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Maggoty@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 00:49 collapse

That’s all platform agnostic. You think they didn’t have accounts and ads on every major service?

SulaymanF@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 17:08 collapse

China does the same.

whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 29 Apr 2024 03:46 collapse

So we should do whatever China does??? Are you ready for the firewall? lmfao

laxe@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 14:59 next collapse

Call their bluff

[deleted] on 27 Apr 2024 16:21 next collapse

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sailingbythelee@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 17:03 next collapse

The tiktok algorithm is good in the same sense that cocaine is good.

Not_mikey@slrpnk.net on 27 Apr 2024 17:40 next collapse

Is it good or do they just have a massive network and data advantage. If tik tok left and everyone switched over to Instagram reels or YouTube shorts and they had the same amount of data tik tok has I think the experience would converge to whatever was on tik tok in a month or so.

There’s no secret sauce to tik tok, they’re throwing massive amounts of data at a recommendation AI and telling it to optimize for watch time, any sufficiently scaled company can do that nowadays. It’s more a matter of getting and maintaining an audience to create that data and content creators, both of which due to the network effect, and without federation, are drawn to the biggest service, not necessarily to the best.

jaybone@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 19:31 collapse

I love how the media has thrown around the word algorithm. They don’t need to sell their algorithm for a competitor to compete. An algorithm produces some result output. So you could easily clone an algorithm without knowing its exact implementation.

Maybe I know quicksort, but you know mergesort. The customer doesn’t give a fuck which algorithm was used, so long as it’s sorted.

bamboo@lemm.ee on 27 Apr 2024 21:09 collapse

This is a bad take. Yes, “algorithm” is a vague term, but it’s incorrect to suggest that they’re easily cloned. These algorithms are what makes social media companies. Without them, they wouldn’t have the same kind of user engagement. It’s why, outside of the fediverse, social media companies try to hide or demote linear timelines. It’s why they pour most of the R&D money into the recommendation algorithms.

jaybone@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 23:14 collapse

But that’s not really an algorithm.

[deleted] on 28 Apr 2024 18:50 collapse

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jaybone@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 2024 07:49 collapse

That was my original point. The media and hence business / management use this term (incorrectly)

They could just say IP, or platform, or service, or implementation. But I guess saying algorithm makes everyone sound smart.

paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 27 Apr 2024 17:34 collapse

It’s probably not a bluff. They’ve pretty much saturated the U.S. market; there’s not much room left to grow here. It would make more sense to focus their efforts on growing in other regions where they have plenty of headroom to increase their userbase and monetization. Depending on how things play out, they could match their current revenue in a matter of years and still have room left to grow. There’s also the potential to re-enter the U.S. market down the line. Why would they throw that all away and essentially create their own competitor by selling their core technology and diluting/confusing their brand with whatever U.S. company they sell to?

NucleusAdumbens@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 18:37 next collapse

I’d think the fact they’ve saturated the US market is exactly why it’d be too valuable to give up. They’d lose a ton of revenue, tanking their valuation. They may be better off selling. From there they could prob just clone it and promote a competing service in those unclaimed markets using a portion of the extra sale price they get for maintaining (and selling a product with) US market dominance

wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net on 28 Apr 2024 00:38 collapse

They’ve pretty much saturated the U.S. market; there’s not much room left to grow here

That… doesn’t make sense to me. So because there’s no room to grow, they pull out of the U.S. and lose the likely ~$1 bil spent on digital stickers for live streamers?

nytrixus@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 15:19 next collapse

Well, it’s better than what could’ve happened. I’ll accept this.

twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Apr 2024 15:32 next collapse

Excellent

Veneroso@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 15:56 next collapse

They should redirect US users to a walled garden that says “Trump is against the ban. Vote Trump 2024” and see how quickly they reverse this. Oh political interference? Trump is all about that too.

Oh man, imagine what hellscape awaits us under a second Trump administration. Glory to Arstotzka!

kerrigan778@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 18:08 next collapse

I see this as a win win

OftenWrong@startrek.website on 27 Apr 2024 23:25 collapse

Of course you do. You’re all just the old man yelling at cloud meme and it’s honestly sad.

kerrigan778@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 23:34 next collapse

Dude, I was there for when Vine was born and for when it died, and Vine didn’t even get picked up for mass disinformation, and y’know what? Life moved on. If you think that makes me old and out of touch then fine.

OftenWrong@startrek.website on 28 Apr 2024 00:25 collapse

I think it’s sad that you’re all just ok with this kind of blatant government overreach to protect corporate pockets tbh. You just go along with the disinformation thing without an ounce of critical thought because you didn’t like the app lol. I guess I just expected better of this community but I was wrong. I think lemmy just got the reddit boomers that are in denial about being boomers. It seems like it’s just an alternative retirement site to facebook for y’all. So have fun with that I guess.

Korne127@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 00:58 next collapse

Am I a Reddit boomer when I’m 21 and like (some) Tiktok-esque kind of content?

I’ve never used TikTok, but not because I don’t get the idea of using audio as meme template or because I don’t like short videos. But just because that specific platform itself is so vile.
Not just talking about funding the Chinese government, TikTok e.g. reduces reach of neurodivergent people. Even worse, it censors information against China‘s authoritarianism and much more.

Why can’t I be happy that this awful platform loses reach? The content itself will be kept, there are enough copycats.

Also, Lemmy is full of people that stopped using Reddit for ethical reasons. So it’s not surprising many are against TikTok as well tbh.

OftenWrong@startrek.website on 28 Apr 2024 02:53 collapse

Yeah, definitely a boomer in vibes if not in age. Sorry. Everything you said is basically wrong. You’re just repeating what others have said without putting a single bit of effort into confirming anything but your own bias.

Ethical reasons lmao. You all just laughed while our government illegally targeted one company with legislation to get rid of competition for big corporations like meta/google. Don’t pretend to be doing any of this for any kind of moral high ground when you can’t even be bothered to look into something before arguing for it. You’re just useful tools happily guzzling their bs excuse of it being for our security because that’s what you want to believe.

MistakenBear32@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 28 Apr 2024 03:07 next collapse

You should go back to school and learn not to behave like an obnoxious child.

tearsintherain@leminal.space on 28 Apr 2024 03:15 next collapse

Greed on Capitol Hill is not new and a huge problem. Big tech does need to get broken up. But are you trying to say TikTok and ByteDance and their backers are small corporations and mom and pop shops??

Scrutiny over ByteDance expanded further after the government took a 1% stake in its local subsidiary Beijing ByteDance Technology in 2019 that awarded the Chinese government a board seat at the subsidiary. inc.com/…/what-you-need-to-know-about-tiktoks-chi…

About 60% of ByteDance is owned by global institutional investors such as Carlyle Group, General Atlantic, and Susquehanna International Group,"

Wiki stuff:

Carlyle Group The Carlyle Group Inc. is a multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation based in the United States with $376 billion of assets under management.

General Atlantic General Atlantic, legal main entity General Atlantic Service Company, L.P., is an American growth equity firm providing capital and strategic support for global growth companies, headquartered in New York, United States. The firm was founded in 1980 as the captive investment team for Atlantic Philanthropies, a philanthropic organization founded by Charles F. Feeney, the billionaire co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers Ltd.

Susquehanna International Group The firm invested $5 million into ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, in 2012 when ByteDance was founded. As of 2020, its stake in ByteDance represented 15 percent of its fully-diluted capitalization table and was valued over $15 billion on paper.[9]

Korne127@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 19:40 collapse

I don’t get your point. I’m against tech monopolies and I hate Google. I want Facebook to be split up and think that the current tech companies are way to powerful, see this video by Last Week Tonight. I use duckduckgo and try to avoid google services.

Don’t pretend to be doing any of this for any kind of moral high ground when you can’t even be bothered to look into something before arguing for it.

Lmao. How would you get the thought I wouldn’t have “looked into this”. That sounds like antivax level of arguments.

Everything you said is basically wrong.

And this gives me the feeling I’m much better informed than you tbh.
Because no, what I wrote is factually correct, read for example this, this or this or just so many more articles, outlining detailed how TikTok censors content made by minorities, talking about the Uighur camps or so much more.

I feel like you can’t grasp the thought that someone knows how bad many tech companies are and still can see that content behind TikTok is at least as terrible. And what I’m writing isn’t any more boomer-like than what you write, you even use the same talking points but are just ignoring any of TikTok’s flaws.

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scottywh@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 02:19 next collapse

Which corporation’s profits do you think banning TikTok is intended to protect?

Also, “boomer” is a specific group of people and applying that term to everyone who doesn’t agree with you makes it pretty damn silly and meaningless.

OftenWrong@startrek.website on 28 Apr 2024 02:48 next collapse

One of the guys that wrote the bill invests heavily in meta and invested even more in March after putting forward the new bill that recently passed to ban it… But I’m sure that’s TOTALLY just a coincidence lmao. Mike McCaul. Not to mention google’s potential benefit for getting rid of a major competitor but they’d never meddle with our government right?

A boomer is someone that’s out of touch and hateful/distrustful of things they don’t understand. It’s a mentality. If you weren’t a boomer you’d know that

scottywh@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 03:02 next collapse

Oh fuck off ya prick.

scottywh@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 03:03 collapse

If you weren’t a fucking fetus maybe you’d be intelligent enough not to offend everyone you interact with.

SphereofWreckening@ttrpg.network on 28 Apr 2024 12:29 collapse

YouTube and Instagram have features that are in direct competition with TikTok. YouTube has even been more aggressive in promoting themselves as the TikTok alternative. On top of that the US government has an incentive to keep them (Google and Meta) happy; since the US routinely spies on its own (and other countries) citizens through these companies.

daltotron@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 03:03 collapse

I mean they’re literally just the guys who read about like, say, 4chan being bad, right, but then never actually use the site itself to see. I mean, yeah, if you go on /pol/ or /r9k/, and then scroll around for like 5 minutes, you can find some content that’s going to reinforce your bias that the site is kind of an ontologically evil fascist hellscape, but if you go on /mu/ it’s gonna be no more toxic than basically any other forum you could go on. It’s just people thoughtlessly parroting the narratives that they’ve heard from other people.

I don’t like tiktok, I don’t like lemmy, I kind of hate social media even though it’s like infested my life because I have no self control, but I’m not gonna be like. This is such an epic pog moment! I’m so pegged outta my gourd! when it gets banned. Because I’ve used it, thoroughly, not just first glance, and I actually understand the pros and cons of the platform. These guys don’t have that, they only have like, the white stale wonderbread and wood chips of social media usage, they only have reddit, and even more libbed up privacy reddit, i.e. the most obvious and in your face social media platforms of all time that give you (ostensibly, in practice, it’s the opposite) a very high amount of control over what they’re seeing. Of course they hate tiktok. On top of the brainrot privacy concerns they all probably have, they’re gonna discard it on the basis that they don’t have the self-control to use its platform, and project that onto everyone else. It’s like a puritan hating coffee, or cocaine, without understanding that it’s a great morning drink, or without understanding that it makes pro wrestling promos wayyyyy fucking better.

zarkanian@sh.itjust.works on 28 Apr 2024 21:00 collapse

if you go on /mu/ it’s gonna be no more toxic than basically any other forum you could go on.

I used to go on /mu/, and yes, it’s unbelievably toxic. I’m glad I don’t use 4chan anymore.

And this was long before all the QAnon shit happened.

daltotron@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 21:39 collapse

Really? I went on it like I wanna say two or three months ago and it wasn’t that bad. You had a couple troll threads, obviously, because (you)s and getting your thread bumped are what the platform incentivizes over anything else, but it didn’t seem that bad.

Railing5132@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 02:21 next collapse

Oh, eat a Hello Kitty lunchbox full of dicks. There’s plenty of reasons to hate on TikTok (and Facebook, insta, YouTube, ad-infinitum/ad-nauseum). They’re a damn cancer on society.

OftenWrong@startrek.website on 28 Apr 2024 02:59 next collapse

Yet you celebrate when the government illegally passes legislation targeting only one company to the benefit of meta and YouTube lmao. Hypocrit.

Railing5132@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 03:30 collapse

Uhhh, dude - it’s not illegal. As others have mentioned, it’s a foreign (hostile) actor contributing to election interference efforts in violation of established law. It is essentially enforcing another law that’s already on place!

The complication with fb et al is that as US companies, there are other laws that protect their actions (and I’m not going to minimize the effects of powerful lobbyists).

SphereofWreckening@ttrpg.network on 28 Apr 2024 12:12 next collapse

I’d love to see any evidence of TikTok acting on behalf of any country (especially China) as a hostile actor, or even any evidence of legitimate election interference. If anything banning TikTok is a significantly more hostile response from the US since it silences another forum for free speech.

Social media is a cancer, but this ban is such obvious propaganda. The only reason TikTok was banned because the US government doesn’t have free reign to spy on its users like it does with Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.

If the US government truly cared about social media and it’s affects they would be regulating all of it. Instead they’re trying to ban TikTok while screaming their heads off about China every chance they get. And that’s before mentioning the extremely shady way they passed this; attaching it as a rider through a government ‘aid’ bill.

kava@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 18:30 collapse

I find it amusing how people talk about things they read second hand without understanding.

The nominal reason they are banning TikTok is because of the data collection. Nothing to do with election security, but national security. The real reason is that they want to lock down the digital information space in preparation for WW3. TikTok is harder to control and there’s a lot of anti-government messaging on it.

It’s sort of like the Voter ID laws in GOP states. They pass laws for “election security” by making it so you need an ID to vote. The nominal reason is so that they prevent election fraud. The real reason is they’ve done statistical analysis and that law reduces black votes by a couple percent, and blacks tend to vote Democrat.

The real reason in both cases would be unconstitutional, so they come up with another.

And the mass of idiots online cheer on the deterioration of whatever legitimacy was left in American democratic institutions.

wick@lemm.ee on 30 Apr 2024 09:46 collapse

So you’re saying it’s for national security… and that’s unconstitutional?

kava@lemmy.world on 30 Apr 2024 12:06 collapse

In other to infringe the right to speech, you need a valid justification. It needs to be a) narrowly tailored and b) actually accomplish the aim of the legislation.

This is the same reason the judge stopped the Montana TikTok ban.

For a) 170 million Americans use TikTok. So the law has to be ironclad legally speaking to be considered narrowly tailored. It needs to be the bare minimum the government can possibly do to alleviate the ill it claims to address.

The fact is, this legislation does not actually result in a scenario where China loses access to data on Americans. They can just buy it - it’s an ocean of data out there and there’s no real way to stop them accessing it.

Unless you were to make large sweeping changes to the way we handle data, like the EU data laws. But that would affect all social media companies.

What I’m saying is it’s not actually for national security. It’s just that if they said the real purpose “ban content potentially manipulated by a specific group of people” then they would require a much higher burden of scrutiny which they could not meet.

There’s a difference legally speaking between “content-neutral” bans and “content-based”. Content neutral for example is national security and requires less scrutiny. You can’t just arbritarily ban content because of what it says. Note the specific text in the ban: because of data collection. Not the content itself.

Make sure to pay attention to the upcoming court case on this situation. It will be an important case. The CCP has signaled they will not approve a sale to an American company, so Bytedance essentially only has one option, and that is to fight this in court.

The fact is the federal government is playing games. They’re playing loosey goosey with the laws in an attempt to manipulate the digital media environment.

This isn’t something a democracy should be doing. It’s akin to banning foreign media. Like Israel banning Al Jazeera. Whole world is going nuts and we’re pretending it’s OK.

Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 14:11 next collapse

So we’ll be taking care of those other companies any day now, right?

atrielienz@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 17:25 collapse

I wish.

Woozythebear@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 15:54 collapse

So are places like Reddit and Lemmy but here you are.

hexabs@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 16:36 next collapse

Are you being intentionally daft? You realise there is no algorithm behind Lemmy, right? You aren’t being shoved controversial polarizing content subliminally here.

The worst of Lemmy is a certain instance… That I have never heard from after defederation.

Woozythebear@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 16:53 next collapse

No just tons of posts cheering on genocide and pushing nazi propaganda.

theterrasque@infosec.pub on 28 Apr 2024 18:29 next collapse

You realise there is no algorithm behind Lemmy, right?

Of course there is. Even “sort by newest” is an algorithm, and the default view is more complicated than that.

You aren’t being shoved controversial polarizing content subliminally here.

Neither are you on TikTok, unless you actively go looking for it

Korne127@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 19:50 collapse

Neither are you on TikTok, unless you actively go looking for it

That’s just genuine nonsense. The whole point of platforms like TikTok are the modern recommender systems that (simplified) lead to algorithmic radicalisation. Because these systems heavily optimise towards user engagement, they naturally spread misinformation and controversial content.
And because this kind of content statistically gets more user engagement as people commend on it and spend more time with it, it spreads quicker. This has also e.g. been confirmed by a leaked internal Facebook memo.

And additionally, these systems are personalised, so when you start to interact with it, you get more and more similar content. This leads to a radicalisation pipeline in which the platforms normalises these positions in echo chambers to you.

OftenWrong@startrek.website on 28 Apr 2024 22:27 collapse

You’re like the old people that yelled about rock music ruining the youth. But for the the internet lmao. What’s it feel like to become that? Is it sad? It seems sad.

adriator@lemm.ee on 28 Apr 2024 21:29 collapse

The worst of Lemmy is a certain instance… That I have never heard from after defederation.

Yeah, defederating from Beehaw was definitely a great decision. I’m so glad I don’t have to see those guys’ posts anymore.

kellyaster@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 22:47 collapse

You’re comparing assholes to oranges

MurphysPaw@sh.itjust.works on 28 Apr 2024 05:02 next collapse

Wow people get so upset when you take away their soft core child porn.

SVcross@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 20:27 collapse

You really live up to your username.

OftenWrong@startrek.website on 28 Apr 2024 22:25 collapse

Nah. I was wrong to come here though. Lemmy isn’t the next step forward. It’s the retirement site for people that got mad at reddit lmao.

SVcross@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 22:46 collapse

I mean, you are disagreeing (even mocking), but not providing any argument. What did you expect?

PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee on 27 Apr 2024 20:05 next collapse

They’d basically instantly be undermining literally every narrative they were trying to push about this by doing that lol

All those kids that were defending the shit TikTok pulls because “well American companies do it too!” are really gonna have to get that egg off their faces

Moorshou@lemmy.zip on 28 Apr 2024 01:15 collapse

I’m just baffled, why am I not free to install whatever crap I want onto my phone?

mechoman444@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 01:51 collapse

Let me ask you a question. How do you think they’re going to “ban” TikTok? Remove it from the app store on Google and apple? You’ll still be able to download the app and use it as long as you have the Internet.

PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee on 28 Apr 2024 02:17 next collapse

Probably just need to use a VPN to access it at most, which Ironically might actually make the content contributions from Americans better since it’s only gonna be people willing to invest in a VPN who are on it lol

mechoman444@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 04:20 collapse

You have a point!

Moorshou@lemmy.zip on 28 Apr 2024 02:35 next collapse

True, I can go get it still from the aurora store.

bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 28 Apr 2024 02:49 collapse

No need to guess, it’s all outlined in the bill:

  1. ByteDance has 270 days (+90 days at president discretion) to divest of TikTok and sell to an entity not affiliated with an “adversary country” (China, Iran, Russia, N. Korea).
  2. If they don’t sell, hosting providers of TikTok application (servers, storage, app store, etc) will be fined up to $500 times the number of users in the US if they continue to host the application

So basically, the law will impose a fine of US hosting providers of the app. If the app moves all services overseas to foreign entities, then the app presumably will continue to work even if banned if already installed (plus the website if hosted overseas).

ISPs and search engines are explicitly exempt from the bill so there is no mechanism to ban connections to TilTok servers or links to TikTok.

Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Apr 2024 22:15 next collapse

Even better

thatirishguyyy@lemmy.today on 27 Apr 2024 22:38 next collapse

Good?

Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Apr 2024 23:32 collapse

Yeah

asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 2024 22:52 next collapse

Awesome

MusketeerX@lemm.ee on 27 Apr 2024 23:56 next collapse

This would be a win for Facebook and Twitter/X.

ArugulaZ@lemmy.zip on 28 Apr 2024 00:11 next collapse

It’s Vine time! What? Just… just bring it back. Call it “Kudzu” or some crap if Elon Musk owns the rights to Vine.

mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml on 28 Apr 2024 09:12 collapse

It’s fre

Free sha voc a doo.

BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 18:12 collapse

I honestly think about this a lot. She did a good job with what she was given.

scarabic@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 01:11 next collapse

There will be a rush of US startups to replace it, and they will all be stage 1 enshittification, so they might actually be good for a while, like TikTok once was.

simplejack@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 03:45 collapse

Or people will just migrate to the YouTube and Insta clones.

[deleted] on 28 Apr 2024 04:28 next collapse

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pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 28 Apr 2024 10:30 next collapse

snapchats spotlight will do the best probably in terms of memes

Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 29 Apr 2024 23:16 next collapse

Still better than the Chinese propaganda machine

wick@lemm.ee on 30 Apr 2024 09:37 collapse

YouTube shorts is such a hellhole that tiktokers migrating to it might improve things.

Hildegarde@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 05:15 next collapse

Google knew youtube shorts didn’t stand a chance in a fair market.

Linkerbaan@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 08:48 next collapse

Nice hope they won’t budge.

moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 28 Apr 2024 10:46 next collapse

Another example of the falling US influence.

UFO64@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 20:13 next collapse

Exactly. We spent four years playing into their hands, its going to take us decades to recover from that mistake.

Liz@midwest.social on 29 Apr 2024 04:54 collapse

Nah, they’ll sell. It would be foolish for them to admit it publicly, that would drive down the price. They’d also lose influence in the American media landscape if they killed TikTok. Finally, they’re fighting this law in the courts, and admitting they’d sell if forced too would be weakening their position. It’s not like selling would really hamper CCP control all that much, they’d just send texts to people’s personal phones when they need something instead of sending official emails.

SulaymanF@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 17:07 next collapse

First, negotiations are not yet over, so they’re hoping courts overturn the ban.

Second, TikTok is very popular outside the US too, though 40% of ad revenue is in the US. They’d survive.

kevincox@lemmy.ml on 28 Apr 2024 20:35 collapse

Even if they do plan to sell they wouldn’t say it. If buyers think that a sale is inevitable they can offer less because they “don’t have a choice” but to sell. If they act as if their plan is to pull out the buyers need to not just make them an offer that is higher than the others, but also high enough to make them reconsider their whole position.

rockitude@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 2024 04:25 collapse

This is right on. The best PR right now is to say they’ll never sell. Take a hard line while they challenge the law in court. They can always have acquisition meetings in private, and announce it out of nowhere at the last second if they do find a buyer.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 18:33 next collapse

If the Chinese government is behind this, it’s a great play. Having Joe Biden be “the guy who banned tik tok” would severely undermine his election chances.

TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 19:03 next collapse

14 year olds don’t vote

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 19:19 next collapse

14 year olds aren’t the only people who use Tik Tok

RedAggroBest@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 19:58 collapse

Lemmy really seems to generally think that TikTok isn’t massively overall popular. Lemmy would have someone thinking it’s a niche app only being used by teenagers.

Gluten6970@lemm.ee on 28 Apr 2024 20:41 next collapse

The largest demographic of tiktok is women between the ages of 18 and 29.

Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 21:43 collapse

Guess we’ll find out whether TikTok or reproductive freedom is more important…

AbackDeckWARLORD@sh.itjust.works on 29 Apr 2024 03:53 collapse

TikTok or reproductive freedom

Both of those bans have happened during the Biden administration

Liz@midwest.social on 29 Apr 2024 04:51 next collapse

Yes, we all know Biden was super excited about Dobs. -_-

Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 29 Apr 2024 23:15 collapse

Abortion ban happened because of Trump’s corrupt judges in the supreme court, yeah

arin@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 2024 05:07 collapse

They were 14 four years ago

zarkanian@sh.itjust.works on 28 Apr 2024 20:43 collapse

Why would China want Biden to lose?

Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works on 28 Apr 2024 21:40 collapse

Because Trump is equivalent to self destruction.

skymtf@pricefield.org on 28 Apr 2024 21:30 next collapse

I think this is a good move honestly, they want it to be an algo similar to meta which you know is terrible, meta is like mostly dudes saying gen Z men are AWAKE and hate LGBT people and tate clips. They seem to have much less success in the algorithm on tiktok

ghostblackout@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 21:35 next collapse

Good 1 less spyware app

KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml on 28 Apr 2024 22:24 next collapse

Okay bye Felicia

Treczoks@lemmy.world on 28 Apr 2024 22:54 next collapse

Could they please pull from Europe, too?

Fisk400@feddit.nu on 27 Apr 2024 08:31 next collapse

They would say that at this stage. They are still working on getting the law overturned by courts and threat of shutdown mobilizes people against the law in a way that selling it wouldn’t.

When the time comes to shut down they will probably do some paper work fuckery that technically makes it an Irish company but doesn’t change the people in the company.

lipilee@feddit.nl on 29 Apr 2024 05:24 collapse

while i’m obviously sure it’s a bluff, pulling out instead of selling would be the clearest admittance that tiktok is (or at that point: was) not about the profit, but about Chinese influence in the US. the message being “we rather leave a hudred billion dollars on the table than give away our surveillance technology to some US company.”

but yeah, they will def. sell if they need to.

cyd@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 2024 05:55 next collapse

There are valid commercial reasons not to go through a forced sale with a ticking time limit, which will inevitably carry a steeply discounted price. Rather than getting robbed, it makes sense to hang on to the company and take profits from the rest of the world.

Aux@lemmy.world on 29 Apr 2024 08:23 collapse

It’s more like their US profits are no match for their Chinese profits. Social media use in China and other Asian countries dwarfs US use.