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Interesting that Temu and AliExpress are also China owned, yet there’s no mention of any issues with them.
I suggest you read the bill. It isn't a tik tok ban. It's actually quite a good piece of legislation.
Well, they're totally different platforms . The rationale behind the TikTok ban (and I'm not saying I'm in favor of it or opposed to it) is that they can do spooky spooky things with your personal data and your attention – your opinions can be nudged once there's enough data on you and your eyeballs are on the app half the day. And just to repeat, I'm not saying I agree with the ban (well, not with banning just TikTok anyhow…)
Temu and AliExpress have their own problems (like the absolutely mind boggling waste of finite resources) but nobody's worried Temu is radicalizing boys or collecting tons of your personal data. And yes even Temu does collect data just like everyone else nowadays, but it's a shopping site; compared to a social network there's not all that much you can get out of your users or too many ways to really influence them outside of making them spend more money
And nothing of value was lost.
My only issue is with Congress telling us all “you have not seen what we have seen, you have not been in the classified briefings”. Yeah, I heard the same shit about WMD’s in Iraq where two of my battle buddies died, two more got wounded beyond any recovery, and a bunch more chose to end their lives after we got home.
“Trust us, bro”. Nah, fuck you. You want the world to support this, you need to share the information.
It will be interesting to see if tiktoks newest big selling point (relatively free from US influence) will be able to offset it's loss in users.
It's likely that they will form a new organization in the US, so they can operate in that country and still have Tik Tok alive. My expectation is that the US based Tik Tok would still interact with the world, but block China.
Any sale would have to be approved by the Chinese government so that is definitely not happening.
I didn't suggest to sale the Chinese company. I suggest to create a new one in the US from the same organization in China. This is a normal practice that is being done for many years by many companies to overcome limitations from those countries.
These threads/articles always get the facts wrong, TikTok is not "getting banned", they are just forcing the company to divest from it's Chinese parent company.
they are just forcing the company to divest from it's Chinese parent company.
... Or get banned