So would you feel better if TikTok was owned by Elon Musk?

[speak easy]

If Trump can convince the CCP to approve the export of ByteDance's IP, Musk would be first in line with The Convicted Felon's imprimatur. First in line for a TikTok that stays CCP friendly.

The national security argument is a scam. No other NATO member has banned TikTok outright. I wonder why? Maybe it's because they don't have a posse of tech-bros waiting to buy it.

[sakabatou]

1. Nope

It'd just become another Twitter.

[BannonsLiver]

2. He's going to end up owning it

I don’t buy into the it’s not for sale crap.

[speak easy]

3. The CCP has to approve the export of the IP.

[BannonsLiver]

6. Yes

And he’s going to end up owning it. You’ll see. Feel free to bookmark.

[speak easy]

8. OP - "If Trump can convince the CCP to approve the export ..."

Not a done deal.

[MichMan]

4. It is banned in China.

Wonder why?

[newdeal2]

17. And India

And UK politicians can’t have it on their phones…

[Autumn]

5. I won't be on it if he buys it. He will do to TikTok what he did to twitter.

I signed up at Red Note yesterday.

[pimpbot]

7. Nope, still wouldnt use it

I also returned some wifi enabled light switches because they forced you to download a shady chinese app to control them. Did some research and all your data ends up on servers hosted in china. No thanks.

I also dont consume social media, so dont really care if its the CCP, zuck, or elon. If i am forced to browse one of those sites i have a cloud sandbox machine i use.

[speak easy]

13. Did some research -

Having the data up on servers in the U.S. was not enough for Congress (and the hungry Tech-Bros.)

[OneGrassRoot]

9. Hell no. n/t

[LearnedHand]

10. Hell no!

I trust it more to be run by China, whom we know to be information warfare adversaries, than that fat-faced, pencil-dicked Apartheid-loving, nation-stealing, small-souled whiny crybaby!

[Mordred]

11. Wouldn't Alleviate Core Nat. Security Concerns

Musk is too multi-national with serious business relations and dependencies on China. Not hard to imagine that Xi could leverage these into Musk still allowing the TikTok data harvesting (among other things) to continue post-sale.

[speak easy]

15. Um ... nativism?

Name a serious business with no dependencies on China.

[EYESORE 9001]

12. Just another wretched platform to avoid

Go ahead, muskrat. Go pound more sand down another rathole.

[EarthAbides]

14. TikTok will not be banned

Millions of TikTok users in this country are really pissed right now. The orange magat will save the day by putting Leon in charge of running it. Problem solved!

[newdeal2]

20. Except a lot of TT users

Or at least the left leaning ones, have said they will not accept that solution. They would rather leave for Rednote or some other app than support Musk or Zuckerberg.

[get the red out]

16. NEVER

Sorry to burst China's bubble, but Musk is a bigger threat to US Democracy than they are.

[HereForTheParty]

18. Democrats voted to ban it 155 - 50

Obviously they didn't anticipate this type of solution.

[speak easy]

21. When they still thought the tech-bros were on their side.

[HereForTheParty]

22. Fair point

nm

[Lemons UK]

19. One down. Many more to go.

[mathematic]

23. If you wouldn't want TikTok owned by Putin why would you want it owned by Xi?

Where is this crazy notion that China is some kind of neutral party coming from? They are as committed to the destruction of the United States and its allies as is Russia.

Why haven't other NATO nations banned it? Somebody's got to go first. Years of inaction towards Russian and the refusal to treat Russia as an adversary led to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Is it so wrong to correct our foreign policy so that China can't do the same to Taiwan, the Philippines, or other Asian allies?

China is absolutely engaged in hostile digital action against us. Reports come out weekly on this stuff. You want to prevent us from taking action to stop this because you don't like the politics of some businessman. It's baffling.

[speak easy]

25. "Somebody's got to go first."

said Pickett to Robert E Lee.

[thebigidea]

24. the only reason the Chinese floated that is to try to peel Dem backing off of this

Since it was a thoroughly bipartisan decision. They aren't fucking stupid.

[speak easy]

27. The Chinese are more worried about Tarriffs

than a half-assed private co.

[CentralMass]

26. Hell no.