Posted on 01/13/2025 5:36:45 PM PST by Words Matter
Right now, on Jesse Watters Primetime. He added, that ultimately it's Trump's deal, in his negotiating with the Chinese.
Having someone here buy it who will play ball with the NSA and FBI kills it. It’s fine the way it is.
It’s a rumor that Musk will buy it. Maybe.
Agreed. That's what this is really all about.
Basically that’s what Zuck told Rogan.
Like O’Leary said, they’ll buy it but don’t want the algorithm because that’s spyware. Just run it as a social platform and it’d be fine.
Without the algorithm, and as a social platform, it would be worthless. It’s strength is that the algorithm is so good.
You like or dislike whatever it serves up, follow the creators or topics you want, and in short order...
High quality positive content comes your way. And it’s set up in a way that there is no need for you to comment, or read the comments of others unless you really want to.
Way better than X, and utterly superior to any Meta product.
If Leary thinks he doesn’t want the algorithm, he has zero understanding of it.
Why are so many so excited about ‘saving’ tiktok?
I don’t want to save it per se, I’m just concerned with the fallout from any decision. Should the left cheat to get into power again, I could see them using any ruling as a cudgel to try to force Musk to sell X to some leftist so that they can have control again.
Granted it’s understood that TikTok = spyware for the Chinese. If Musk WERE to get it, and were able to strip out the bits that send metrics to the CCP, I’d still be concerned about the precedent.
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