President Biden signed a bill that states if TikTok doesn't cut ties with its China-based parent company ByteDance over the next nine months to a year, it will be banned in the U.S.
Honestly I’m not super in love with either. The internet should be one of our greatest achievements, and while I think companies like meta and bytedance are harming it for their own profit, I definitely don’t want the government controlling it.
Doesn’t the chinese government de facto control it right now? What makes control by the american government any worse? If anything, it’s a slight improvement.
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Honestly I’m not super in love with either. The internet should be one of our greatest achievements, and while I think companies like meta and bytedance are harming it for their own profit, I definitely don’t want the government controlling it.
Doesn’t the chinese government de facto control it right now? What makes control by the american government any worse? If anything, it’s a slight improvement.
Practically, yes. On paper though, it is a private entity owned by foreign nationals.
If people read or listened to what people actually said, they couldn’t get their hit of self-righteous rage.
And a right wing group of investors want to buy it. Own the news.