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The anti trust system has failed completely.
Of course. But on the other hand: Who else would?
It’s not like Bob from Des Moines is going to find $100 billion behind the sofa cushions to buy it. There aren’t that many companies with much higher valuations.
Oracle has been the most involved player for TikTok up to this point. Trump has also floated the idea of being government-owned.
They want to privatize the post office but make TikTok government owned… JFC…
Government owned under Musk. Basically Musk wants to control it while we pay for it.
Disgusting.
Cool, they can both fucking die.
It doesn’t matter who the hell wants to buy TikTok if ByteDance still doesn’t want to sell.
I don’t know why we keep having these sorts of conversations when they’ve signalled they have no intent to give in to the demands of the US.
If anything large US companies signaling a desire to buy would make it less likely that a sale actually happens. The awareness that social media has the ability to influence users politically is very much there now and nobody wants that all in the hands of one country, especially one as adversarial as the US.
It’s only US Tiktok that’s under discussion for sale. Nobody’s talking about buying Tiktok globally.
And you think nobody outside of the US is interested in preventing the US from having a total propaganda stranglehold on their own population?
How would you prevent that? The US can just ban Tiktok anytime and gain that prop stranglehold.
But that would be a very unpopular move that might even be counter-productive while selling them Tiktok would just be handing them everything they want on a silver platter.
Do you think the current administration gives a shit if a move is unpopular? That’s their whole shtick.
The ban already happened. There was nothing massively unpopular about it. And whoever lets the exemption lapse doesn’t have to take the heat for it, since they can just blame it on Biden.
It was massively unpopular among the relevant demographic, the Tiktok user. Those are the ones you would want to reach obviously.
So after buying WaPo, bezos wants in on social media. Got to pump out the propaganda where the kids are
Already has twitch
That went really well with Twitch didn’t it…
Isn’t the deadline tomorrow? They should have sold by now if they wanted to
Extended 75 days
And I want to buy the moon. So fucking what?
