TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal

Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by m0zg on Saturday August 01, 2020 @06:16PM (#24024363)

So I take it you'd be fine if, e.g. Yandex (the "Russian Google") entered the market then? Good to know. Or is that different somehow, in your mind?

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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by javagram on Saturday August 01, 2020 @06:40PM (#24024527)

Yes, as the other person said, Yandex is available in the USA right now. I’ve seen Yandex bots crawling the USA-based websites I manage at my job. And that’s totally fine.

We don’t have a great firewall here in the USA. At least not yet.

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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by em500 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @06:25PM (#24024421)

Entered which market? Yandex works (and has always worked) fine in the US as far as I can tell. I'm not getting your point.

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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by m0zg on Saturday August 01, 2020 @06:46PM (#24024578)

Social media (AKA "election interference") market. You're only pretending to "not get" my point.

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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by em500 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @07:10PM (#24024719)

It seems that you're presuming that I would have some sort if issue if Yandex were to try to start a FB competitor in the US, which I don't. So I really don't get your point.

FWIW, vk.com already freely operates in the US, and I don't see any problems with that either.

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