[SoConPubbie]

He’s an utter fool if he thinks kids are going to be happy with the Larry Ellison and Fox News version of TikTok. Handing it over to big tech is it going to kill it. It was an absolute hotbed of Maga and good conservative wholesome channels. It won’t be any better than Facebook or Instagram now.

I believe you couldn't be more wrong.

I will try to check back in a year from now to see what you think.

[DesertRhino]

I won’t be there to see when Oracle and Ellison and Fox take over. China won’t sell the algorithm, and DC says they are going to “retrain the algorithm”.

So to protect my data from China, it’ll go to the San Francisco Bay Area, Tel Aviv, and Langley Virginia? Thanks just the same... most people will get a VPN and use the world version, or move onto the new platform that will certainly emerge.

“Protecting” us from foreign influence is nothing new. Nazi Germany let people have radios that could not pick up the BBC, the USSR used to jam American and western European radio stations.

Same old thing...