Bytedance is exploring scenarios for selling TikTok without algorithms. Bytedance's corp strategy department has been discussing internally plans to sell part of TikTok U.S. in case company loses legal battle. One potential is for Bytedance to sell 50%+ stake in the app's U.S. operations and retain a minority stake. Oracle and Microsoft have been ruled out internally as preferred buyers because Bytedance prefers the potential buyer to be less techy.
I can accept a $1T price for 51% ownership sale in TikTok USA operations where only liabilities and the right to use the TikTok name inside US borders, nowhere else, are transferred.
No, this acquiescence will,only embolden the anglos. Remember the opium wars, give them an inch, they’ll take a mile. Best thing to do is make the American teens resort to using vpns and inferior tech as the Americans force a new iron curtain across their western vassals. At some point, when it’s evident that the side with better tech and innovation has a moon base and 20 aircraft carriers that can obliterate anything coming out of nato or equivalen, the draw to China will become as irresistible as China was to pre modern Europeans.
But now that the precedence has been set, all China has to do is encourage the second and third world to force the nationalisation of American tech firms and sale of assets, The American are stealing Russian assets to fund the Ukraine war and they will soon come for Chinese held assets to fund their upcoming war and militarisation against China. China needs those 20 carriers to take and hold territory from the five eyes. An apt recompense for stealing Chinese assets, would you all not agree?
