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I don't read Twitter... I especially don't read the President's tweets.
Fair point, however it was blasted all over CNBC and etc, maybe I need to read the news less and my programming reference manuals more as a better use of my time
Sigh. We're living in an Onion story.
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> They can do whatever the hell they want, why would american companies spend any time conforming to their demands when they can pull the rug out from under them at any time. I think you just described the US
You can literally stand in front of the white house and call president trump whatever you want. Nobody is going to stop you. Go stand in front of the white house with a picture of trump calling him a cheeto or whatever, you're fine. You cannot even call the chinese dictator winnie the pooh online in china, or you get gulag'd.
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Enjoy attacking the straw man.
i don’t really get how this works. will the US one have global users or just US ones?
So is there going to be a US TikTok and a World TikTok?
The interesting thing is that these platforms come and go. One year it’s Vine, another year it’s Snap, now it’s TikTok. ByteDance bought musically for $1B in 2017 and turned it into Tok. 3 years later, it’s grown like crazy because it’s the latest fad and would be smart for them to cash out before the next new thing hits The whole divestment thing is probably a godsend for ByteDance, “forcing” them to liquidate their…
TikTok is not overhyped, it is here to stay, that's why they want to ban it. It's still growing like crazy and is way way more entertaining than any other social network by a long shot.
I'm amazed how people can just ignore John Locke and the primitives of Western Civilization, and ignore the threat of China, Saudi Arabia or the European Union -- all of whom deny natural rights and are antithetical to the US.
Perhaps you're not American but the European Enlightenment is fundamental to modern society. It is the reason we are talking via handheld computers. Let's not ignore its decimation.
What if China stalls and the US administration changes in a few months.
Conflating the CCP owning and controlling a private company's platform is the propaganda that seems to be spun out this situation.
It's also what is causing people to see the app as a threat, ergo, highlighting exceptionalism and a tiny bit of xenophobia.
Future startup biz strategy: Chinese company makes huge viral app for the US market, and lets everyone stoke rumors that it's a spying platform. US gov't tosses a huge subsidy at whatever domestic company can acquire it at any cost - in the interest of national defense - resulting in massive overvalued purchase. China pockets the profits. Rinse, repeat.
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TikTok is not overhyped, it is here to stay, that's why they want to ban it. It's still growing like crazy and is way way more entertaining than any other social network by a long shot.
That's not the only reason they want to ban it. I'm amazed how people can just ignore John Locke and the primitives of Western Civilization, and ignore the threat of China, Saudi Arabia or the European Union -- all of whom deny natural rights and are antithetical to the US. Perhaps you're not American but the European Enlightenment is fundamental to modern society. It is the reason we are talking via handheld compute…
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Thinking that US market forces will open the chinese market after decades of failing to have that effect seems rather naive.
It's not 'US market forces' that will open China, and it never was. It was the opportunity to expand into global economic markets, with a certain perspective in mind, ballpark along the lines of Western Liberal Democracy and Economy. The Asian countries that followed this path after WW2 were enormously succesfull: South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan. They are basically beacons of prosperity surrounded by…