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9dashline

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Expert1324 said:
Guys, many people on reddit are speculating that Tiktok is gonna be allowed to get sold to a US owner (likely META), or at least be a 50-50 joint venture with a US company under the Trump administration. Is this true???

God pls dont let this fucking happen. This defeats the whole purpose of the defiance this whole time and trying so hard to protect the valuable proprietary technology!!!!!!
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Tiktok was never "valuable proprietary technology"... lets not kid ourselves... the algorithm, if it was that good, already got into NSA hands long ago...

This whole Tiktok saga should be seen in broader geopolitical lens... and here, China using it to show the world that USA is a lawless banana republic that has a meaningless and now increasingly unenforceable constitution etc with no checks and balances is already the greatest win

Biden playing Checkers, Trump playing Chess, and China playing the Quantum Pincer move in the age of AI Weiqi

Getting American companies to violate US law...(while its children on Mao Red book etc) ... priceless

Imagine if that opened the flood gates elsewhere down the road .....cough cough EUV, ASML etc

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proelite

proelite

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Expert1324 said:
Guys, many people on reddit are speculating that Tiktok is gonna be allowed to get sold to a US owner (likely META), or at least be a 50-50 joint venture with a US company under the Trump administration. Is this true???

God pls dont let this fucking happen. This defeats the whole purpose of the defiance this whole time and trying so hard to protect the valuable proprietary technology!!!!!!
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There is nothing valuable about a recommendation algorithm. It's all about exposing the inconsistencies and hypocrisy in US system.

Fatty said:
Also one thing I want to add is that the CCP needs to go harder on propaganda about safety. For the average Chinese it seems natural but the idea of walking around at 2am and feeling safe is a very very foreign idea to the vast majority of urban Americans. All this stuff about food being cheap and QoL when this point is by far the most important one.
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+ HSR.
 
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Expert1324

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Tiktok was never "valuable proprietary technology"
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Even if that is true, if a sale does happen, we are still losing an extremely valuable platform that had already amassed hundreds of millions of active American users that is on a scale that no other social media app had ever achieved.

And a Chinese creation no less.

Just on the basis of pride and representation, I really really do not want us to lose this app. I also do not honestly foresee Rednote is able to take over TikTok's place anything soon, although I do wish I can eat my words.
 
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dingyibvs

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coolgod said:
I mean the US has gone from sell Tiktok, to forming 50-50 JV now. It's clear China has the upper hand, Trump also has political pressure now since Americans want Tiktok back and he promised to save Tiktok before. Trump wants a deal, I think China can give him a face saving deal.
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IMO this could be the start of a trend, a blueprint if you will for Chinese companies to operate in the US, including auto, drone, renewables, and perhaps even the likes of Shein and Temu.
 
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Expert1324

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50-50 JV now
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this should never ever happen

rather let the app die than making them 50% owners, this is against everything we stood for

And I honestly do not think those people have bargaining chips over TikTok, knowing how they start backtracking their own policies and witnessing how their shit backfires by the general public. This bluff is so easy to call!!!

would be fking stupid to sell any percentage of TikTok when we can clearly see it will ultimately be for nothing!!!
 
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Chevalier

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proelite

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Chevalier said:
American propagandists are on damage control on twitter, for eg I’ve seen this exact text being bottled and posted:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1881003435472069066

Misinformation from Elon musk’s buttboy
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1880986194592317943

Musk is getting mighty ungrateful considering the Shanghai gigafactory is the bedrock of his wealth in Tesla. He lobbied to ban Chinese EVs as well.
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China never banned these companies outright for being American. They can operate in China if they wanted to.
 
AssassinsMace

AssassinsMace

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Expert1324 said:
Guys, many people on reddit are speculating that Tiktok is gonna be allowed to get sold to a US owner (likely META), or at least be a 50-50 joint venture with a US company under the Trump administration. Is this true???

God pls dont let this fucking happen. This defeats the whole purpose of the defiance this whole time and trying so hard to protect the valuable proprietary technology!!!!!!
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Again Americans thinking China has to sell... And they get to dictate the buyer...? Trump doesn't like Mark Zuckerberg. China doesn't like Mark Zuckerberg. TikTokers don't like Mark Zuckerberg. What makes anyone think Mark Zuckerberg is on top of the list of buyers?

What are the odds we’ll “see” a meeting at Trump’s party of Mark Zuckerberg talking to Shou Zi Chew…?
 
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