kintherByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say
BananaTrifleViolinMakes sense from a business point of view. Why sell to create a new competitor with the same technology and an impregnable market base in the USA?
Better to force US competition to start from scratch.
UnderpantsWeevilYouTube/IG are hardly starting from scratch.
But they don’t have the international reach of TikTok.
IG is owned by FaceBook which actually has about double the userbase of TikTok if you don’t count DouYin’s 700 Million.