Nobel Hobos 2 wrote:Novus America wrote:
I never said I was proud of it, just that it is a smart move in the Cold War 2.0 game.
More than half the users are in China. It's named something else there (Douyin). Market price, which the US isn't getting a huge discount on, is based on twice the users TikTok will actually still have when owned by the US.
You imported something from China. And payed extra for it. Smart move?
Well, I doubt a Thanos snap on a megaapp regularly used by 80 million citizen will be taken lightly by those very citizens, or future precedents, so it isn't really a better alternative. And since the buyer is Microsoft, instead of the Congress or whatnot, I'd say that's a private business decision and Microsoft will have to deal with any of its consequences on their own.