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

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TikTok dealt a serious blow to the Western consensus manufacturing apparatus. We saw that with Gaza especially. This deal is a step towards taking back control.

Maybe these crypto-zealots who scream about decentralization will actually try and build a thriving decentralized media instead of pumping and dumping shitcoins?

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

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IIRC, but I read the TikTok app is mostly WebViews, which was a design choice to help keep it functioning in the face of an App Store ban.

IIRC TikTok is built using their own framework, https://lynxjs.org/

I totally forgot about this... I might have to look at it again. Thank you.

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

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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.

They're going to send thugs into businesses demanding to see if any of their employees are secretly using TikTok on company time, then demand the business buy a million dollar corporate license.

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

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So Larry Ellison just took over Paramount group which is now looking to bid for Warner Brothers and CNN. And now Ellison is going to take over TikTok. Paramount(being run by Larry Ellison's son) is looking to install the pro-israel-propagandist who has variously masqueraded as a liberal, a conservative and anti-woke free-speech champion, Bari Weiss[1] as CBS's editor-in-chief or co-president[2]. It also bears mention…

> This very much looks like a hostile take-over of the American mind by a tech billionaire who just overtook Elon Musk to become the world's richest man. People should be talking about whether they want to go through this all over again.

Again? People should be talking about the hostile take-over currently in progress and how it is getting exponentially worse. But the billionaire mouthpieces gave everyone a shiny new inconsequential talking point and no one cares about anything that matters.

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

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We are doing state capitalism without China’s “serve the people” bit. Hm, maybe there’s a name for that type of government, idk.

> We are doing state capitalism without China’s “serve the people” bit. Hm, maybe there’s a name for that type of government, idk. Except China doesn't actually serve its people. Things are way more cut-throat there, with much less safety net. The Chinese government sees workers as grist for the mill, not something to be cared for.

A government-provided safety net is not an absolute good; you need to ask what holes are being filled.

Just because you have fewer full-body casts than someone who just got in a bad wreck, does not mean you are worse off.

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