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U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

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Post by dragonwriter »

SilverElfin wrote: post #7

What does this “stake” get America at all? Will they be able to change the algorithms or censorship or amplification on TikTok? The point of the ban was to avoid national security issues from having an adversarial state (China) controlling speech in America. Banning it entirely is the best way to avoid these problems. As a reminder, TikTok forces staff to sign pledges to support China’s political system in order to w…

> What does this “stake” get America at all?

“America” is an abstraction. It gets the people who will own the new entity something, and its gets the government decisionmakers something, and that’s, in practice, more important than what it gets “America”.

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

HackerThemAll wrote: post #12

Oracle is then going to mandate license fees from every user, together with 22% support fees with 8% increase every year. They'll then rewrite TikTok in Java, and migrate to Oracle Database.

The Android .APK files are already Java.

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Post by slg »

Sometimes I'm truly baffled over the stories that the HN readership ends up mostly ignoring. When I heard about this news elsewhere, I came here fully expecting this to be high on the front page with hundreds of comments discussing it. For comparison's sake, the story about Tiktok shutting down[1] and then restoring service[2] in the US each had over 2500 comments. Meanwhile, 3 hours after this story was posted, this is the 14th comment.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753396

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42759336

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Post by TillE »

slg wrote: post #16

Sometimes I'm truly baffled over the stories that the HN readership ends up mostly ignoring. When I heard about this news elsewhere, I came here fully expecting this to be high on the front page with hundreds of comments discussing it. For comparison's sake, the story about Tiktok shutting down[1] and then restoring service[2] in the US each had over 2500 comments. Meanwhile, 3 hours after this story was posted, this…

Frustratingly I can't recall specific examples, but in the past year there have been several major discussion-worthy tech stories I've seen on The Verge or wherever, and I come to HN a couple hours later and there's either literally nothing or the post got zero interaction. Strange!

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Post by bix6 »

> one member designated by the US government.

Why does the board of TikTok need a gov member? Is Meta going to get a gov chaperone too? And Oracle surely needs one as well.

Is the gov putting out a call for board member civil servants? Like where does this person even come from?

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Post by duxup »

bix6 wrote: post #19

> one member designated by the US government. Why does the board of TikTok need a gov member? Is Meta going to get a gov chaperone too? And Oracle surely needs one as well. Is the gov putting out a call for board member civil servants? Like where does this person even come from?

Same reason they put a guy at CBS as a "bias monitor":

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-fcc-cbs-ne...

They want their guy to make sure things go their way / people say the "right" things.

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