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

Post by LetsGetTechnicl » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 10:57 PM UTC

smegma2 wrote: post #338

LetsGetTechnicl wrote: post #173

Are there any other examples of something like this happening? A successful (foreign) app is forced to be sold to a US company just because of its country of origin? What happened to the free market? It's remarkable that privacy is even in the conversation when FAANG is just as bad Not to mention that this is all just a distraction from the very real destruction Trump 2.0 is doing to peoples' lives, safety, financial…

Yes, in 2020 Grindr was forced to sell for similar reasons.

Post by jimmydoe » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 10:59 PM UTC

delfinom wrote: post #410

vehemenz wrote: post #399

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Board will include one U.S. government–appointed director. In other words, one's data will now be under the scrutiny of amoral radicals who have decided to target people for political speech.

We are slowly becoming Communist China. Won't be long until all companies will be required to have a party office.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 11:00 PM UTC

fogzen wrote: post #369

barbazoo wrote: post #117

I'm not an expert but this makes me think that it might time to turn off the screens and stop letting half-trillionaires decide what we look at.

It's time to go take the half-trillion from them.

Post by zappb » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 11:03 PM UTC

ElijahLynn wrote: post #350

Is this a coup by conservative government to gain control of this social network to promote it's ideologies? first Twitter, now Tiktok, both controlled by conservative interests?

Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 11:11 PM UTC

dotnet00 wrote: post #328

I fully expect a decent number of people in favor of this to, without a shred of irony, whine about wanting a free market whenever environmental regulations are in the news again.