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TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (17 children)

I wonder if Tiktok will just make a seperate company that would comply before the 2025 ban comes to effect...

Or they will just exit the US market, interesting stuff.

I still think Glenn Greenwald views on this topic hold true.

"ByteDance doesn't have any plans to sell TikTok," the company posted on its official account on Toutiao, a social media platform it owns.

The sell-or-ban measure was signed into law by US President Joe Biden on Wednesday.

"We are confident and we will keep fighting for your rights in the courts," said TikTok boss Shou Zi Chew in a video posted on the platform this week.

"The facts, and the Constitution, are on our side... rest assured, we aren't going anywhere."

The Chinese government has also dismissed such concerns as paranoia and has warned that a TikTok ban would "inevitably come back to bite the US".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (7 children)

The Chinese government has also dismissed such concerns as paranoia and has warned that a TikTok ban would "inevitably come back to bite the US".

The fundamental ethos of the US and its propaganda of why it's the greatest country on the planet is the first amendment and the current bunch are absolutely destroying that illusion in plain sight of younger generations.

They're sending billions for wars and to Israel supporting and assisting them in genocide yet are saying to the ones they expect to pay for it that there's no money for healthcare, infrastructure, education, welfare, raising minimum wage, etc, etc, et al, and then still demanding they should receive their votes "because the other guys much worse".

I see a lot of younger people saying that both are shit, that the system is rigged and they ain't playing their game anymore. That is tantamount to revolution.

[+] [email protected] -10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Funny how you concerned citizens always seem to mention Israel without also mentioning supporting Ukraine. Almost like it’s not on your talking points list.

If you don’t see an issue with a hostile nation state directly controlling something that is consumed by so many Americans, you’re not looking at it properly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also because Ukraine is a nazi state. It has nothing to do with my "talking points" just that Ideologicaly I am opposed to The Ukraine, so I do not want support being sent to them.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ah, so you’d be perfectly ok with Russia just expanding in Europe and invading the Baltics and Moldova? Oh, you’re a .ml user. Your answer is obviously yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Who said anything about the baltics ot moldova?

Ukraine was doing a genocide and violated 2 treaties Russia granted aid and enforced the treaties, and then the areas voted to join russia

If you want to talk about the baltics we can, or Transistria, not Moldova, we can, but that wasn't the topic of discussion

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Don't stumble down that slope jackass

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