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ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (www.reuters.com)

submitted 6 months ago by kinther to c/technology

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[+] [email protected] -7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If tiktok can be considered owned by the Chinese gov so can facebook https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM theres tons of programs secret and public that shows american tech companies have to obey to the US government demands.

Boomers vote more than anyone else

Facebook owns all the biggest apps, instagram whatsapp, and now threads is getting bigger than twitter. Great lets kill competition because scary china boogeyman all put all the power in the hands of mark zuckerberg, the conservatives that manipulate the platform and pay to manipulate the people on it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

If tiktok can be considered owned by the Chinese gov so can facebook https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM theres tons of programs secret and public that shows american tech companies have to obey to the US government demands.

"In 2014, ByteDance established an internal Chinese Communist Party (CCP) committee.[47] The company's vice president, Zhang Fuping, serves as the company's CCP Committee Secretary.[48][49]"

This is not a defense of FB or american companies, but rather an indictment of tiktok and an acknowledgement that the degree of CCP involvement in tiktok is not the same as neolib involvement in FB.