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      Of course. But on the other hand: Who else would?

      It’s not like Bob from Des Moines is going to find $100 billion behind the sofa cushions to buy it. There aren’t that many companies with much higher valuations.

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    It doesn’t matter who the hell wants to buy TikTok if ByteDance still doesn’t want to sell.

    I don’t know why we keep having these sorts of conversations when they’ve signalled they have no intent to give in to the demands of the US.

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      If anything large US companies signaling a desire to buy would make it less likely that a sale actually happens. The awareness that social media has the ability to influence users politically is very much there now and nobody wants that all in the hands of one country, especially one as adversarial as the US.

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          And you think nobody outside of the US is interested in preventing the US from having a total propaganda stranglehold on their own population?

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              But that would be a very unpopular move that might even be counter-productive while selling them Tiktok would just be handing them everything they want on a silver platter.

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                  The current administration is the one keeping TikTok alive in the US. Trump has delayed the ban twice now.

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                The ban already happened. There was nothing massively unpopular about it. And whoever lets the exemption lapse doesn’t have to take the heat for it, since they can just blame it on Biden.

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                  It was massively unpopular among the relevant demographic, the Tiktok user. Those are the ones you would want to reach obviously.

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    So after buying WaPo, bezos wants in on social media. Got to pump out the propaganda where the kids are