ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US

Awesome, do META next please!

Even better

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.

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.

Call their bluff

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.

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.

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

Could they please pull from Europe, too?

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

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

Another example of the falling US influence.

Bye Felecia

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.

Even better

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".

Awesome

For good

Okay bye Felicia

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

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.

Cool, please do.

Good 1 less spyware app

Excellent

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.

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Back to Vine we go

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

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!

Very unlikely.

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.

Leaving US in darkness

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.

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

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.