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They're technically not banning tiktok, they're banning China from owning tiktok
Which is somehow even worse : it's like only the USA is allowed to spy on everyone!
They can still spy, but why would we make it easier for them?
So you don't ridiculise your country by promoting freedom of trade but seizing the assets of the countries you don't like when it's a better tech than yours.
You can't be ridiculed if you feel no shame.
our most and least popular politician is a sex predator who earned all his money by his dad dying and is currently at risk of losing his money because he can't stop lying about things.
The greatest monument to american shamelessness is Donald J Trump.
I'm not with my government on a lot of things they do. I want the same data rights and restrictions to apply to all companies that host people's personal information.
But what's this about Impressive tech? Tiktoc? First that's laughable, even more laughable is how you phrase is as if anyone would give a fuck if another country had some better tech. Sounds like you are projecting your own insecurities.
It will be just as easy for them, just less profitable. Now they'll just pay Zuckerberg or Musk for the information. If they aren't already.
Every superpower spies on their citizens. Every single one.
They're functionally forcing the sale of the company to a US Firm at fire sale prices.
Yeah, you are right. They should do like they do in China, sell to a JV with a local company at fire sales price... Oh wait
The Chinese policy is to share ownership with locals, so that a firm isn't simply extracting wealth from the Chinese market.
The American policy is to seize a pre-existing firm after it has developed, by accusing its Singapore founder of being a secret Chinese Communist.
They're not going to sell though. The US only makes up a single-digit % of their users.
The USA is the biggest single market
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/tiktok-users-by-country
Nothing I said is incorrect.
Didn’t disagree with you
Then you agree that they're not going to sell? What does being the largest single market have to do with this? Fucking make a point, dude.
Then you agree that they're not going to sell? What does being the largest single market have to do with this? Fucking make a point, dude.
Calm the fuck down dude, jesus christ. Go touch grass
Still not a point 👍
Then you have no point? They're not going to sell their money machine because a tiny fraction of it went away.
Do you have a source for that?
This seems to claim the most users are from the U.S.
China doesn't use the same product. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1299807/number-of-monthly-unique-tiktok-users/
Your source is fine 👍
Yours says that ~90% of their users are not from the US.
Despite the US being Tiktoks largest single-country user base they still only make up a sliver of their monthly-active users.
So just over 4% of the worlds population is making up 10% of the usage. I suppose the owners shouldn't care about that sliver of the users. They should care more about the smaller slivers, got it.
Tiktok is one of the largest social media apps on earth, they're not selling it over a sliver. Why does it matter how much bigger the sliver is than the other ones? Are you stupid?
Yes
Me too
"TikTok" is an American Company. Their owners, ByteDance, also own a nearly identical product in china called 抖音 (Douyin). The Chinese version is much more closely operated by the military, their offices are literally military owned buildings and lots.