It would be really dumb for Bytedance to sell TikTok just because America wants them to. The rest of the world uses the internet too.
The USA is the leading tiktok-using country, I’ll give them that. But according to this statista page, the following three countries already double the total of USA users.
That means ByteDance stands to lose way more by divesting themselves of TikTok than losing their USA audience. Not only are they isolating themselves diplomatically and economically from the rest of the world, now they’re backing down in hubris culturally as well.
Although I really dislike the TikTok business model for obvious reasons, banning it on USA territory is going to be really nice for the whole TikTok ecosystem.
So, when poor oppressed Americans are going to start getting VPNs to escape their Great Firewall?
Wsj has seen better days. The quality of the writing is like 2/10, not to mention the content
I might be mistaken but aren’t they one of the companies that fired their entire staff to have ChatGPT write for them?
This slowly feels more and more like the US cannot handle the idea of anyone else making something successful,
It would be very funny if WW3 were triggered by tiktok
