TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal – sources

Post by sushshshsh » Sat, Aug 01, 2020, 6:04 PM UTC

slowmovintarget wrote: post #196

sushshshsh wrote: post #193

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Considering the government strong armed Google into not interacting with Huawei, and considering many other governments have done IP bans / app store removal pressure, I find it a bit funny that the original reply was saying "who said the government will block TikTok?", as if that wasn't news directly from the President's mouth

I don't read Twitter... I especially don't read the President's tweets.

Post by liuliu » Sat, Aug 01, 2020, 6:06 PM UTC

eli wrote: post #18

liuliu wrote: post #7

Just echo back on U.S. doesn't have precedents of blocking software in the article. I don't think that's true. U.S. has both means (file request to Apple and Google to pull software off the shelf, remove the domain from root DNS etc) and done these before for piracy and other reasons.

What does “file a request” mean here? Send a letter asking?

Post by dkersten » Sat, Aug 01, 2020, 6:09 PM UTC

patrickaljord wrote: post #152

volgo wrote: post #140

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.

Post by patrickaljord » Sat, Aug 01, 2020, 6:10 PM UTC

untog wrote: post #192

patrickaljord wrote: post #185

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I've tried Snapchat, never felt the same thing I'm getting with TikTok. TikTok is not being hyped to me, I genuinely get a good laugh out of it everytime I open it. Never had that with Snap or really any other social network. This is huge.

That’s your personal experience. But I can guarantee that if you rewind a few years you’d be able to find many people who would say that Snapchat gave them the kind of experience Instagram never did, or whatever. Snapchat was huge. TikTok is huge. But there’s no guarantee of permenance.

Post by patrickaljord » Sat, Aug 01, 2020, 6:12 PM UTC

AlexandrB wrote: post #197

Sivart13 wrote: post #181

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I heard people say this about Facebook for years, that it was just the next Myspace and it would be gone in a year. Platforms are temporary until they're not.

So is Facebook temporary and TikTok is going to take over or is Facebook here to stay and TikTok is temporary? This seems like a zero-sum game for the most part.