There is no universe in which TikTok is only worth $14B.
How about the universe where the us government threatens to shut it down unless you sell it to its cronies?
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#12There is no universe in which TikTok is only worth $14B.
I believe it was TikTok’s U.S. operations that were sold for $14B, The rest of the world is still under Chinese ownership... hmm, did I just say ‘the rest of the world is still under Chinese ownership’?
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#13There is no universe in which TikTok is only worth $14B.
There is when the $14B doesn't go to Bytedance.
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#14The title here "TikTok Sold for $14B" is completely incorrect TikTok was not sold. This is an announcement of an executive order endorsing a proposal to sell TikTok. > No representatives from ByteDance were present at the signing, and the company hasn’t acknowledged that a transaction is taking place. No purchase price was mentioned, and there’s no indication that the Chinese government has made changes to laws that…
Why does this even need an executive order?
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#15This feels like an incredibly low valuation for what has been billed as such an important commodity.
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#16Without the algorithm, TikTok is not TikTok.
When Tiktok was banned in India, everyone tried to recreate it, include Instagram. Everyone failed to get anywhere close to TikTok for you page.
Once the new algorithm is live, expect massive backlash.
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#17The title here "TikTok Sold for $14B" is completely incorrect TikTok was not sold. This is an announcement of an executive order endorsing a proposal to sell TikTok. > No representatives from ByteDance were present at the signing, and the company hasn’t acknowledged that a transaction is taking place. No purchase price was mentioned, and there’s no indication that the Chinese government has made changes to laws that…
Why does this even need an executive order?
Because the illusion that they used to call "capitalism" is revealing itself for what it really was, i.e. just an illusion.
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#18Title is: Trump approves TikTok deal through executive order, Vance says business valued at $14 billion
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#19TikTok has not been sold for $14B but Trump signed an executive order to transfer TikTok to US owners... for less than 1x it's US revenue.
It reminds me of the oligarchs in Russia, license raj in India, privatization in Mexico etc…
being close to political power lets folks buy up crown-jewel assets at a fraction of their true value.
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#20Whitehouse post: https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/09/fact-sheet-pr...