Comment by JumpCrisscross 2 months ago
> Trump has already signaled he wants to save Tiktok
Trump can blame Biden and move on.
> If that goes away, what does that do to the financial viability of the platform?
Bytedance makes most of its money from Douyin.
> He has a major donor that owns part of TikTok
He has a major donor who owns part of Bytedance. They’re not losing their investment with this ban.
1. Then why is that investor so aggressively against the forced divestment? (not a ban)
2. Bytedance will certainly lose value if its main product loses one of its main markets.
He also has a major donor who owns Meta, and a major donor who owns Twitter/X.
He also has a daughter who is the only American to hold patents in China without having to license IP to a Chinese company.
We are about to see some strange mental gymnastics out of 1600 Penn.
I don’t think Zuckerberg is a major donor. He gave some pocket change to Trump’s inauguration but was there anything more?
He kind of sat out this election cycle (despite being a major Democrat donor previously) because I guess he saw where the wind is blowing…
Anyone with significant financial interests in China should not be able to represent the US in confronting China.
And yet..
He has a major donor that owns part of TikTok. He'll save it for corrupt reasons, ignore the real concerns about it, then move on.