China Discusses Sale of TikTok US to Musk as One Possible Option

Post by Craighead » Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 7:33 AM UTC

awnird wrote: post #19

Many TikTok users are signing up for RedNote, an actual Chinese social media app. US users consider this a better option than American offerings such as Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube. While Chinese developers are focused on building great products, US developers are focused on pushing politics. As a result, the Chinese apps are clearly more desirable for users.

Post by JumpCrisscross » Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 7:49 AM UTC

jasdi wrote: post #16

Too much money chasing too few goods in the market causes Inflation Too much Content chasing limited human Attention is causing very very similar issues. It took centuries to connect the fact that increasing or decreasing the money supply at a faster or slower rate than goods arriving in the market causes all kinds of chaos. The chaos made it hard to see the connection. Central banks finally emerged to manage money s…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 8:22 AM UTC

pizza wrote: post #24

gagik_co wrote: post #4

I can’t even imagine how many weird decisions would get made in Elon’s TikTok. I guess this would have been a Twitter-style blessing in terms of killing it, if only its Facebook/YouTube-powered alternatives didn’t exist and we could get rid of short form video for good.

You would disempower people far more than empower them. You would be denying them the right to free speech and the free exchange of ideas. It would basically result in the wanton destruction of probably hundreds of thousands if not millions of established little pockets of community for self-expression that people had worked to build and maintain*. Name one other type of media that does not then also deserve the same…

Post by dragonelite » Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 9:30 AM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #35

awnird wrote: post #19

Many TikTok users are signing up for RedNote, an actual Chinese social media app. US users consider this a better option than American offerings such as Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube. While Chinese developers are focused on building great products, US developers are focused on pushing politics. As a result, the Chinese apps are clearly more desirable for users.

> Many TikTok users are signing up for RedNote, an actual Chinese social media app PAFACA (seriously?) already empowers the President to designate "applications owned and operated by other companies" as "oreign adversary controlled applications" [1]. If a deal is forthcoming between Musk and Bytedance, RedNote will almost certainly be designated in Q1. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Americans_from_Fore.…

Post by JumpCrisscross » Tue, Jan 14, 2025, 9:53 AM UTC

dragonelite wrote: post #38

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Many TikTok users are signing up for RedNote, an actual Chinese social media app PAFACA (seriously?) already empowers the President to designate "applications owned and operated by other companies" as "oreign adversary controlled applications" [1]. If a deal is forthcoming between Musk and Bytedance, RedNote will almost certainly be designated in Q1. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Americans_from_Fore.…

Well Americans better get used to using a VPN if they want to breach their firewall. I gotta admit this cyber situation switcheroo happening in the third week of 2025 is not what i had on my bingo card. I expected that more to happen post Trump 2nd term.