There is no way TikTok will be sold - China won’t allow it, and it’s also technically likely nigh on impossible to just sell the “American” portion of it.
TikTok is a multinational success and highly profitable, so ByteDance aren’t going to sell it just to keep it going in the US for the benefit of Americans. They of course don’t want to shut it down as it’s hugely financially successful in the US, but a ban is the lesser evil for the company.
But it’s all nonsense anyway - Trump wants to “do a deal” over this; I doubt he’ll get anything meaningful from China but he will blowhard about some bullshit to save face and TikTok will continue, even if there is a short ban before his inauguration.
Legitimately what’s stopping them from accepting the ban and just releasing tiktok 2 with another name. Everyone will hear about the endorsed tiktok replacement and flock to their instead of the other weird Chinese app people are moving to in protest. Literally unless America bans China operating in the States their just going to whack a mole this until America stops singling it out.
The “ban” is. i wish people would read what the actual bill says.
The bill stipulates that any entity in the control of a foreign adversary with a certain user threshold that collects specific data and uses algorithms to track users would be banned. This is why the red note “protest” is also not going to work. They’ll just ban rednote as well. The ban is about more than just tik tok.
This is not sustainable at all and is going to lead to a chain of banning app after platform after app as users move to the next thing and the government struggles to keep up with regulation.
I can’t say I’m surprised by American government clown show tactics at this point but this is, most definitely, clown show tactics.
There is no way TikTok will be sold - China won’t allow it, and it’s also technically likely nigh on impossible to just sell the “American” portion of it.
TikTok is a multinational success and highly profitable, so ByteDance aren’t going to sell it just to keep it going in the US for the benefit of Americans. They of course don’t want to shut it down as it’s hugely financially successful in the US, but a ban is the lesser evil for the company.
But it’s all nonsense anyway - Trump wants to “do a deal” over this; I doubt he’ll get anything meaningful from China but he will blowhard about some bullshit to save face and TikTok will continue, even if there is a short ban before his inauguration.
Legitimately what’s stopping them from accepting the ban and just releasing tiktok 2 with another name. Everyone will hear about the endorsed tiktok replacement and flock to their instead of the other weird Chinese app people are moving to in protest. Literally unless America bans China operating in the States their just going to whack a mole this until America stops singling it out.
The “ban” is. i wish people would read what the actual bill says.
The bill stipulates that any entity in the control of a foreign adversary with a certain user threshold that collects specific data and uses algorithms to track users would be banned. This is why the red note “protest” is also not going to work. They’ll just ban rednote as well. The ban is about more than just tik tok.
This is not sustainable at all and is going to lead to a chain of banning app after platform after app as users move to the next thing and the government struggles to keep up with regulation.
I can’t say I’m surprised by American government clown show tactics at this point but this is, most definitely, clown show tactics.