Dragxito@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 个月前ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the USwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square193fedilinkarrow-up1621arrow-down120
arrow-up1601arrow-down1external-linkByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the USwww.androidauthority.comDragxito@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 个月前message-square193fedilink
minus-squareJaysyn@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up46arrow-down26·9 个月前If money wasn’t the point, then influence was. Congress is right to shut them down. Foreign owned, FARA-unregistered influence operations have never been a facet of “free speech” in the USA.
minus-squarepeopleproblems@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down9·9 个月前It’s pretty weird that they’d admit it. The smart move would have been to sell it and take the L, and use the new money to build the next thing.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·9 个月前Money is still the point. There’s an entire world outside the US.
minus-squareThe Uncanny Observer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 个月前I mean, not on the surface. But lobby groups working for foreign governments operate in Washington to this day, and they’re ignored because Congress doesn’t want to shut the money tap off.
minus-squareSpecal@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 个月前They’d lose money in a sale as they’d lose their IP.
If money wasn’t the point, then influence was. Congress is right to shut them down.
Foreign owned, FARA-unregistered influence operations have never been a facet of “free speech” in the USA.
It’s pretty weird that they’d admit it.
The smart move would have been to sell it and take the L, and use the new money to build the next thing.
Money is still the point. There’s an entire world outside the US.
I mean, not on the surface. But lobby groups working for foreign governments operate in Washington to this day, and they’re ignored because Congress doesn’t want to shut the money tap off.
They’d lose money in a sale as they’d lose their IP.