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Amazon wants to buy TikTok (www.gsmarena.com)
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[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 79 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ActuallyGoingCrazy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly, Bytedance is a lot more than TikTok and even then, the US users are neglectable.
They'll probably ban it in the end.
Can't have information not controled by the regime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C3QDPRWPUg