Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Who Should Buy TikTok?”.
Kind of a big week for news um, Tik Tok – this was we talked about this at the beginning, Congress has the US. Congress has passed a law, giving Tik tok’s parent company bite dance until January of next year to sell the app or it will be blocked from us app stores and internet service providers. Is this what it would take for iPhone users to finally say hey? We need to be able to Sid load. Is this what it would take to make the iPhone uncool with jenz and gen Alphas, if you couldn’t put Tik Tok on it, because there’s no way to sideload an app and Tik Tok isn’t in the app store anyway? This forc investment was passed as part of a large foreign aid package targeted at Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Bite dance has promised to fight the legislation in court, calling it an unconstitutional infringement on American users.
Free Speech, rights sources inside the company have told Reuters that bite dance leadership would rather Tik Tok shut down then sell it. I honestly can kind of see that it’s like this is my ball. I’M going to play with it or I’m going home. Take it with me a major reason lawmakers gave for the decision to force bite dance to divest from Tik Tok is the lack of a barrier between the Chinese government and Chinese companies. National security and privacy experts have expressed concern both that the app could be used to access sensitive user information and that its algorithm could be used to manipulate public opinion about the CCP. I guess what I’m asking is: why aren’t you forcing Facebook to sell to to who – even I don’t know or Twitter, to sell to who, even I don’t know no like? If, basically, your concern, in a nutshell, is that there’s an entity controlling this app that you can’t control and that could tune its algorithm for its own purposes.
I don’t know man like I’m, not I’m not exactly Pro China. That entity is specifically another country, because I I see where you’re going and I do think you’re entirely right, but uh. I I think they’re like ooh. This is this is uh.
What is it foreign, foreign, National interference or whatever? I don’t remember the term for it, but I think it’s something that they’re fighting against um. Who do you want to see BU? It is our discussion question in I. I really can I say the brackets. Can I say the brackets sure in Brackets it says, don’t say Elon I mean if you hate Tik Tok.
Maybe you would like to see. I was going to say I kind of want it to be Elon. Oh man, I just I. I think the part of me that, just like loves to see things burn, sometimes just you know why not. It is entertaining it’s another thing that I don’t like or use so like whatever .