ByteDance Has No Plans to Sell TikTok

ByteDance said it does not have any plan to sell TikTok, according to a statement on the Chinese-language social media platform the company owns. Under a new law, ByteDance has to sell the app within 270 days. Michael Shepard reports.
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[@AliseIam]

Definitely don’t sell it to Zuck.

[@rickfeng4466]

yeah that would suck

[@schloops8473]

china has no plan to sell tiktok is what the title should have said

[@KimC2421]

Biden just put the last nail in his coffin for any chance for a second term 🙃🙃🙃

[@Will-zd2lj]

By protecting Americans data?

[@donkeychan491]

@@Will-zd2lj By protecting Zionists' stranglehold over your media.

[@Gaven-G]

Trump was also pro tik tok ban?

[@Gaven-G]

@@Will-zd2lj Google sells data, apple sells data, samsung, amazon, meta. The list of apps that don't sell data is probably a whole lot shorter than the ones who do.

[@roymoxley2587]

They all steal and sell data There all criminals

[@akka2011hk]

China will not allow Byte Dance to sell Tiktok. So if TikTok lost the legal battle. It will take the ban! But the teenagers nowadays are tech savvy. They wil find a way to get around the ban.

[@roymoxley2587]

There will be no get around

[@schloops8473]

theres no get around as any business using it will be committing a crime, no advertisers would get on it... immediately doomed and replaced by an app not owned by the ccp

[@akka2011hk]

@@roymoxley2587 Sure there is. U don't need the App store to download updates. Sportify and others have shown U that. Users can put the app and updates in github, reddit.... U also have VPN to get around firewalls put up by telcos. It's just more troublesome.

[@dillonh321]

@@roymoxley2587 Yes there is. VPNs. People in china, Russia and etc already use them to get around banned social media sites in those countries.

[@sevenhenson3926]

Shut down n see the chaos unfold in American society. U reap what u sow

[@schloops8473]

oh you don't want it to be banned because you are afraid it could harm the people your nukes are targeting? How funny.

[@sweetliquidsnake]

There wouldn't be any because it would require these people to sign up to for KZbin Facebook and Instagram for mass communication and the censorship on them would stomp down any disorder

[@sevenhenson3926]

@@sweetliquidsnake there will be simultaneous protests n demonstrations for sure. Small biz will be affected. Youths will behave like drug addicts. Much like the dystopian movies we see

[@whinnysandwhiskers]

I'll be glad when TikTok finally kicks the bucket.

[@blackmesacake5361]

If they cant prove it, they cant keep it

[@peterthehappywaiguoren]

TikTok won’t be sold to a US firm. People in the US can buy a VPN to continue using it. Might be a good idea to invest in some VPNs.

[@Gizmojay]

First musically and now this

[@TPHGroup]

Its bigger than content creation

[@jwkm6918]

They should call the bluff, keep it and let the chips fall where they may.

[@schloops8473]

yes please, call the bluff... then have it banned all over the West and most of the world because nobody wants your stinky ccp stealing our data to attack us

[@CryptoNewsNetwork_]

Its probably bigger than content creation

[@mfit7110]

It’s about controlling who’s voice is heard.

[@CryptoNewsNetwork_]

@@mfit7110 I agree

[@roymoxley2587]

Good shut it done it’s garbage Period

[@schloops8473]

yup

[@sweetliquidsnake]

As long as I get my 7 cents live money idgaf