• Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    People love to repeat this, but US companies aren’t coming from a place of hostile intent like china’s special brand of tik tok for the states.

    • endhits@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      They’re both focused on profit. The only reason you see the other one as scary is because it’s owned by the scary scary Chinese. Red scare all over again.

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        2 months ago

        No tiktok is not focused on profit. It literally has one of the worst/non existent monetization systems.

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            2 months ago

            Case in point. Vine literally can’t survive and so shouldn’t TikTok. Unless of course it’s getting propped up by a government with endless funds and not focused on profits.

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          2 months ago

          Because the USA strong armed them into giving their platform handling to Oracle Corp, a top tier US govt contractor.

          But since pro-palestine cries can’t be silenced on TikTok as easily as Zio media, taking control of the platform is no longer enough