Comment by spencerflem

Comment by spencerflem 5 days ago

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Right, I guess I'm agreeing with you that social media is an effective propaganda machine (they're ad companies and what is an ad but propaganda to buy a product) and the US Govt wants one where they set the tone.

I was disagreeing with GP that seemed to act like TikTok was uniquely a propaganda engine

LargeWu 4 days ago

I think the fact that the PRC would rather burn it all down rather than allow it to be sold speaks volumes that it's not about TikTok as a business venture.

  • dpkirchner 4 days ago

    It's also possible that the US market just isn't as valuable or profitable to TikTok/ByteDance as we assume.