But it's not being taken seriously. TikTok's future in the US is once again uncertain. On April 5, President Trump's extension to the 'sell or be banned'...
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.
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.
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.
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 current administration is the one keeping TikTok alive in the US. Trump has delayed the ban twice now.
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.