plawolf
Lieutenant General
Tiktok should setup VPN everywhere and continue making money from Americans, that would be a change of tide.
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Preferably setting VPNs in Europoe, SK and Japan so US must fight and block its allies.
TikTok’s business model is advertising money, twerking American youth doesn’t generate any actual money, it’s the ad money American companies paid to get their ads in from of their target demographic that generates the revenue for TikTok.
A US ban would in effect become a world wide ban since most large international companies would be loathed to pay TikTok to advertise their goods and services would fall fowl of US long arm jurisdiction BS and their weaponisation of the USD and financial system.
This is why the ban will be a big deal, and will require proportional responses from the Chinese government to make sure this sort of thing doesn’t become routine.