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TikTok users in the US will reportedly have to move to a new app with new American owners when Trump deal takes effect

President Trump says his administration and major tech investors have reached a deal to take over TikTok's US operations.
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According to WSJ's sources, Oracle, Silver Lake, and Andreessen Horowitz will be the new majority owners of TikTok in the US. Oracle is a Silicon Valley database and cloud computing company—which is already TikTok's cloud provider—that was co-founded by conservative billionaire Larry Ellison. Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz are Silicon Valley investment firms run by more billionaires (who else runs Silicon Valley investment firms?), including Trump adviser Marc Andreessen.


The new company will have "an American-dominated board with one member designated by the US government," WSJ reports, and will require users to move to a new app. The US version of TikTok will reportedly run its own content recommendation algorithm with tech licensed from ByteDance.
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I wonder what type of content would get pushed by the algorithm with those people in charge :lol:

For the rest of the world it will be great. Tiktok was a much nicer & more interesting place for the 48 hours of the US ban a few months back.
 
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TikTok users in the US will reportedly have to move to a new app with new American owners when Trump deal takes effect

President Trump says his administration and major tech investors have reached a deal to take over TikTok's US operations.
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I wonder what type of content would get pushed by the algorithm with those people in charge :lol:

For the rest of the world it will be great. Tiktok was a much nicer & more interesting place for the 48 hours of the US ban a few months back.
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I expect this is just going to cause another surge in VPN subscriptions so people can keep using the proper service, and Ameri-tok will end up being another wasteland of extremist garbage. Which is, of course, exactly what Lord Drumpf wants.
 
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What kind of a world do we live in when people think this is OK? I don't get it.
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One with amusing similarities to history. Previously if you thought your neighbor wasn't devoted to God, or was showing signs of the Devil, you could report it to the authorities and they'd be tried for being tainted/possessed/a witch/a heretic.

Back then religion ruled above rational thought and science... and yeah, it feels like we're heading that way, doesn't it?
 
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I expect this is just going to cause another surge in VPN subscriptions so people can keep using the proper service, and Ameri-tok will end up being another wasteland of extremist garbage. Which is, of course, exactly what Lord Drumpf wants.
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Essentially Truth-tok
 
Zero2Oblivion
One with amusing similarities to history. Previously if you thought your neighbor wasn't devoted to God, or was showing signs of the Devil, you could report it to the authorities and they'd be tried for being tainted/possessed/a witch.

Back then religion ruled above rational thought and science... and yeah, it feels like we're heading that way, doesn't it?
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A little closer to modern US history, it reminds me of turning someone in to the authorities for being communist.
 

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