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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by badrequest on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:19PM (#23839300)
This deal is from May 2019, well before anybody was talking about banning TikTok.
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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by kutorio on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @07:22PM (#23839324)
It's not hard to imagine them planning ahead. In fact you can argue that the parent company ByteDance has planned for such existential risk by setting up TikTok as a separate entity from Douyin.
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Re:TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services fr... by justicezyx on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:02PM (#23839647)
That of course was the case. Mega corporations are as powerful as small sovereign nations, they have to behave like one...
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