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[Wrought]

India is just going to be the Philippines writ large. Primary and tertiary industries without a manufacturing base.

Poor analogy. India has a relatively small manufacturing share, but its size means that it's still decently large in absolute terms. It's big enough to benefit from economies of scale. Philippines is literally an order of magnitude smaller.

 

[gelgoog]

India does have some industry. Their problem has always been a lack of resources and low technology base to expand.

 

[wuguanhui]

The American users should presently still be the most valuable because of their spending power. TikTok makes their money by selling ads. But I imagine the majority of the US user base is GenZ and the MAGAfication of the app might drive them away.

I suggest the international version have their own built-in free VPN service to accommodate US users who aren't MAGA.

 

[Hyper]

About Tiktok. Who handles their workload outside North America. That is currently under Oracle and will remain so. But outside is it Bytedance data centers of someone else?

 

[siegecrossbow]

Already posted, it means the algorithm, Americans gets to setup a separate US only TikTok and pay ByteDance for permission to use (note not access) China's export controlled algorithm, ByteDance/China continue to control what Americans see, but now Americans has to pay China for that previlage.

The only plus for Americans is they'll get censorship power over US users, which is what AIPAC cares about.

On a serious note the lady Trump appointed to monitor anti-Semitic content on TikTok is doing a very poor job. Not only are there loads of anti-Israel content but there are loads of legit right wing neo Nazi content as well. The comments section on those are simply nuts.

 

[zyklon]

On a serious note the lady Trump appointed to monitor anti-Semitic content on TikTok is doing a very poor job. Not only are there loads of anti-Israel content but there are loads of legit right wing neo Nazi content as well. The comments section on those are simply nuts.

That's to a certain degree intentional.

Can't keep on pretending to be victims forever and ever if all the boogymen have been wiped out or otherwise silenced.

 

[Hyper]

Depending on how the subsidiary is set up there are two possibilities. One it's simply a share sale of tiktok as a whole then status quo. If it's creation of tiktok US as a new subsidiary then things get interesting. Is operation between US and rest of the world going to remain same or different. If same then users won't face problems. Now if there is a creation of a walled garden where data has to be copied between borders for users then egress costs will eat TikTok as Oracle will squeeze them hard.

 

[iewgnem]

Depending on how the subsidiary is set up there are two possibilities. One it's simply a share sale of tiktok as a whole then status quo. If it's creation of tiktok US as a new subsidiary then things get interesting. Is operation between US and rest of the world going to remain same or different. If same then users won't face problems. Now if there is a creation of a walled garden where data has to be copied between borders for users then egress costs will eat TikTok as Oracle will squeeze them hard.

I think you need to keep in mind ByteDance shut down TikTok for 24 hours despite Biden explicitly telling them not to just to spite the Americans.

If it comes up it'll be Oracle who has to pay ByteDance for egress, just like the US will have to pay China to use the algorithm to avoid losing it due to their own laws.

 

[henrik]

About Tiktok. Who handles their workload outside North America. That is currently under Oracle and will remain so. But outside is it Bytedance data centers of someone else?

Maybe they are using Huawei or Alibaba datacenters.

 

[AssassinsMace]

I'm not going to say there's a conspiracy but everything authorities are saying especially with Trump in office can be all lies. The father said the rifle was a gift to his son. Tyler Robinson already confessed to the roommate he was the assassin. So why would he lie about the rifle being his grandfather's hence why its importance enough to get the roommate to retrieve it for him because his father was going to get angry if it was lost? That doesn't need to be said. That was worse than assassinating someone one? The whole conversation could be made up to fit the Republican narrative. Just like Ghislaine Maxwell getting moved to a better prison facility, a deal could've been made so the roommate just has to shut up in exchange for not getting charged. In any other circumstance, you don't think the roommate wouldn't be sitting in jail too for not immediately calling authorities. It makes it more look like a transgender conspiracy. All Ghislaine Maxwell had to say was she didn't remember anything regarding Trump being involved. She's a first hand witness. It doesn't put her in a position where she would be found guilty of lying in the future but Trump and his followers would point to that confirming he wasn't involved when she's the second most guilty person that would know.

The main stream media isn't going to mention the inconsistencies because they know Trump will punish them for making "him" look like a liar.