Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by tw1984 on Monday January 20, 2025 @04:47AM
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> ByteDance surprised almost everyone in choosing the stick.
shortly after Trump tried to force bytedance to sell its shares during his first term, the Chinese government passed laws to include the recommendation systems used in social media into the export control list. bytedance thus won't be able to sell tiktok without approval from the chinese government.
Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by pjc50 on Monday January 20, 2025 @06:08AM
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Does anyone have a citation for this? Probably higher quality if it's in Chinese even if I have to machine translate it. Because that would be a clear pointer of suspicion.
Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by tw1984 on Monday January 20, 2025 @07:44AM
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2020 report by nyt, paywalled of coursed
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/technology/china-tiktok-e...
the official export control list in Chinese
https://www.most.gov.cn/tztg/202312/W020231221620858841394.p...
it is on the 29th page, with export control number 086501X, item 18.
Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by pjc50 on Monday January 20, 2025 @08:14AM
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OK, that's pretty convincing. And it's interesting how much other stuff is in there like OCR for Hanzi!
Re:TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
by myko on Monday January 20, 2025 @10:33AM
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> The goal was always to get TikTok divested of Chinese ownership, not to ban it.
Seems like the goal pivoted recently - the goal is to keep TikTok Chinese and have them supporting the corrupt regime taking over the US, similar to other foreign adversaries have in the past
The ban was the stick and selling it for a lot of money was the carrot. ByteDance surprised almost everyone in choosing the stick.