Commerce Secretary Howard Lunatic...?
Don’t we have enough crazies in Washington DC. and the federal gov’t...?
TikTok played a HUGE role in getting Trump elected.
They are talking about Larry Ellison of Oracle owning it. That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard. We don’t want China having control of what you see. You’ll be much safer if Larry Ellison and the CIA run it. That’ll be the end of TikTok, everyone will move on to something else.
An another will spring up to take its place, there are no sacred cows, everything can be replaced.
We should call this what it is, the Mark Zuckerberg matter protection act. Facebook is on life-support, Instagram utterly sucks, and tick-tock was eating them alive. So Zuckerberg ran to his congressman that he owns and had them pass this.
Forcing the sale of TikTok can set a very bad precedent.
Any government of a foreign country might subsequently force the sale of any subsidiary of any American company doing business in that country.
In one sense Xi could care less, as 60% of Bytedance is owned by global institutional investors, not the Chinese government. But the longer TikTok goes dark, the owners will see the value of their holding slipping and THEY will pressure Xi to make a deal to sell TikTok to U.S. interests. Trump’s threat to let TikTok go dark is directed at Xi, but unless it becomes an actuality, not just a threat, Xi is not giving in.
CCP controlled TikTok is, after all, a most obvious national security risk. Anyone that want to sacrifice our national security because a bunch of Trump voters were on TikTok is throwing caution to the wind.
Let us say the sale is completed at 12 noon Monday.
What will change?
Will the TikTok software be rewritten by 1pm?
Will the TikTok software be understood by the acquiring American company within seven days? Seven weeks?
Will TikTok be taken offline until the software is understood or rewritten?
What if 10% of the acquiring company’s software engineers were born in Red China?
It’s about damn time. Enforce the law. Shut it down.
What’s to prevent the Chinese from say creating a new company called say HotChicks, HandsomeHulks, BeltwayJobs, BetterButtocks or SiliconValleySaves run by Beijing-loving folks with American citizenship?
Let ‘em go dark.......the “woke” and “snowflakes” will go nuts!
What if the spying is done via advertiser keyword combinations and not TikTok itself?
Shut it all down. Apps like TikTok are a mind cancer. It’s digital ADHD.