US lawmakers want a TikTok sale or ban, but China’s ByteDance won’t give up without a fight
US lawmakers want a TikTok sale or ban, but China’s ByteDance won’t give up without a fight
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Can ByteDance have its TikTok cake and eat it too?
They are just jealous that someone else is getting all the tasty data, and they think it should be going to a US company instead.
Except US TikTok data is hosted by Oracle in the US...?
Doesn’t matter who hosts it. Oracle has no access to the user data. Just because some website is hosted there does not mean that they can see the data.
Yeah, it's not about 'data.'
It's about money. Lol. American rulers want a piece of that pie, and they have plenty of useful idiots spreading FUD to help them.
Despite this, they don't believe tiktok's assurances that the CCP doesn't actually have ready access to the data. However the only evidence they've presented is testimony from a former employee.
More than that, US companies have maintained monopolies for decades in the tech sector, and feel entitled to them even as markets shift away.
I'm a bit worried about the amount of people I see making this argument whenever I see posts about a TikTok ban/acquisition.
I'm getting the impression that, either:
Am I correct? Is there a nuance I'm missing?
I can understand concerns over point #2 here, but #1 and #3 seem wild to me.
Well since I see US propaganda literally everywhere else it's nice to get some counter-programming.
Seems fairly arrogant for you to declare that these positions are 'wild' and then expect other people to explain why they're not. Seems like you should be able to justify why those positions are "wild", because they seem perfectly reasonable to me.
Yli.think you make a reasonable point, but it feels like choosing between getting stabbed in the left leg vs the right leg.