• AwesomeLowlander
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    101 month ago

    It’s only US Tiktok that’s under discussion for sale. Nobody’s talking about buying Tiktok globally.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 month ago

      And you think nobody outside of the US is interested in preventing the US from having a total propaganda stranglehold on their own population?

      • AwesomeLowlander
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        1 month ago

        How would you prevent that? The US can just ban Tiktok anytime and gain that prop stranglehold.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 month ago

          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.

          • @[email protected]
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            01 month ago

            Do you think the current administration gives a shit if a move is unpopular? That’s their whole shtick.

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              1 month ago

              The current administration is the one keeping TikTok alive in the US. Trump has delayed the ban twice now.

          • AwesomeLowlander
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            -11 month ago

            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.

            • @[email protected]
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              51 month ago

              It was massively unpopular among the relevant demographic, the Tiktok user. Those are the ones you would want to reach obviously.