There are good reasons to force the divestiture of TikTok from ByteDance — but it could come at a very high cost, especially if China won't agree to a sale.

I tried to sort through my very mixed feelings:

https://www.platformer.news/p/tiktok-nears-the-endgame

TikTok nears the endgame

Breaking off TikTok from ByteDance might be the right thing to do — but it will come at a high cost. PLUS: How Twitter keeps competitors off its For You page

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PLUS: @zoeschiffer with another wild story from inside Twitter

https://www.platformer.news/p/tiktok-nears-the-endgame

TikTok nears the endgame

Breaking off TikTok from ByteDance might be the right thing to do — but it will come at a high cost. PLUS: How Twitter keeps competitors off its For You page

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@caseynewton @zoeschiffer It sounds like Musk “shadowbanned” his competitors. I thought he believed that was bad. Shocked.

@caseynewton @zoeschiffer

Did they also downrank any emerging social platforms they temporarily banned links from? Mastodon, Post.news, Nostr?

@caseynewton @zoeschiffer Wow, another great example of “Freedom of Speech Absolutism” isn’t it?
@caseynewton @zoeschiffer this is what he’s going to do to the Democrats around election time. Watch. Elon and presumably Peter Thiel discussed it in text messages which were released in Delaware court
@caseynewton @zoeschiffer is this happening in EU . Cos almost certain illegal or will be v soon
@gavinkarlmeier @dennishorn ☝️ falls ihr auf der Suche nach Content seid 😅