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.
ButtonsWhy don’t they just sell TikTok to a US Citizen who happens to believe TikTok should remain the same.
TikTok would remain exactly the same, with the exact same algorithms, but it would then be the free speech of a US Citizen so everyone would be happy. Maybe TikTok couldn’t send the data directly to China anymore, but they could certainly sell personal data on the shadowy data markets, just like every other US owned tech company does.
In short, why can’t China simply find a US Citizen or two to do their bidding?
Why don’t they just sell TikTok to a US Citizen who happens to believe TikTok should remain the same?
They already did that. TikTok is incorporated in the Cayman Islands with headquarters in Los Angeles. The bill of attainder is post-that