If tiktok really is controlled by China they could just nuke their servers out of spite
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If...
- TikTok really has 172,000,000 USA users, and...
- The US Govt really will force TikTok to sell at fire sale prices...
Then could the US users buy and own US TikTok, similar to how the WI football fans own the Green Bay Packers?
I figure the govt will make TikTok sell itself for pennies on the dollar. If each TikTok user contributes $1 USD, that could cover some costs and debts. $5 USD could cover all costs and debts. $10 USD and US TikTok could be set for a while (3 years, maybe?). Maybe put the funds in a trust or something.
Could it work? Probably not, but it's something to think about. Might be more useful to let US TikTok get banned or, if bought by say Meta or w/e, the users burn it down along with Biden and the libs.
This is embarrassing. Rapidly, the US is turning into a country that cannot compete honestly in the worldwide market. Chinese app dominating America? We can't possibly have our own app that competes on merit. Let's make it illegal!!!
Chinese with affordable EVs? Tax the shit out of them, how else is Ford supposed to stay in business?
If we knew what we were doing we would have domestic solutions that Americans would utilize. Since we can't compete on level playing ground, we legislate our way out of the problem.
The free market everybody
What the company should do is just shut down before it allows itself to be a tool of US only propaganda or subject to Bobby Kotick playing Elon Musk and nazifying the app.
Make a last public post and an opportunity for people to download their archives. Then roast the fuck out of the fascist investor class butthurt they couldn't have absolute control, despite the fact the NSA copies like every bit that flows through the net.
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