NEWS Chinese officials are evaluating a potential option that involves Elon Musk acquiring the US operations of TikTok if the company fails to fend off a controversial ban on the short-video app. Full Story: https://bit.ly/40dYKNY - ThreadSky

yasharali.bsky.social • 46 days ago

NEWS

Chinese officials are evaluating a potential option that involves Elon Musk acquiring the US operations of TikTok if the company fails to fend off a controversial ban on the short-video app.

Full Story: https://bit.ly/40dYKNY

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teachradicallove.bsky.social•46 days ago

Of course.

jamiekynn.bsky.social•46 days ago

Oh gawd.

fastenoughforyou.bsky.social•46 days ago

we gotta get Luigi outta jail man

whirlsz.bsky.social•46 days ago

what a nightmare

jaxny88.bsky.social•46 days ago

I’d rather not have TikTok

forbin17.bsky.social•46 days ago

Not good

beverlymann19.bsky.social•46 days ago

Under a Dem administration, this would be blocked under antitrust law because he owns TwiX. What needs to happen now if he acquires TikTok is quick development of a TikTok competitor. Somehow.

indianasolo.bsky.social•46 days ago

ravinhill.bsky.social•46 days ago

No way

elegantbw.bsky.social•46 days ago

No.

iitoi.bsky.social•46 days ago

Fuck all these assholes.

acpinono.bsky.social•46 days ago

From the US govt perspective, is that any better than tik tok being Chinese owned?

vickijk.bsky.social•46 days ago

The incoming administration is salivating at the prospect of Musk having control of TikTok. So is Putin. So is Chi.
The disinformation circle is almost complete.

samthom64.bsky.social•46 days ago

This is really bad.

freedom2b.bsky.social•46 days ago

...
...

Flee the app.

dizzyndreamin.bsky.social•46 days ago

That is worse than losing it.

jimwhitney.bsky.social•46 days ago

He clearly needs another social media platform under his control.

zombieparmesan.bsky.social•46 days ago

Great... Another app I can't use.

lollanna.bsky.social•46 days ago

The Chinese know what they are doing here. Use it as leverage and power since Musk is in the WH & growing Tesla over there. Trump's talk about those tariffs is bluff, scaring people in line, bcse he knows it would hurt his bottom line too. Everyone got played once again.

debarg316.bsky.social•46 days ago

Lol and this would be better for the United States?

twowheeltrina.bsky.social•46 days ago

So he will screw it over the way he did Twitter... no thanks

lvkopple.bsky.social•46 days ago

This is WHY WE CANT HAVE NICE FUCKING THINGS!!!!

raymondvantoor.bsky.social•45 days ago

‘TikTok has called a Bloomberg report that China is considering allowing a sale of the social media company's US operations to Elon Musk "pure fiction".

"We can't be expected to comment on pure fiction," a TikTok spokesperson told BBC News.’

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78w9zz62ego

hannah---f.bsky.social•46 days ago

You don't say??? Insert sarcasm

dogalmighty.bsky.social•46 days ago

I purged TikTok a while back, but yeah, fuck that shit.

fake-speeches.bsky.social•45 days ago

China attempts to bribe trump inner circle with ownership of most popular communication app

sarahjp81.bsky.social•46 days ago

Hell, this has to be hell.

nelannette.bsky.social•46 days ago

oh. goody.

luvbirdbaby.bsky.social•46 days ago

This story is not true.

sorencookie.bsky.social•46 days ago

China knows well that TikTok in Elon's hands will do it's job - divide and weaken the usa.

britthippie.bsky.social•46 days ago

Great. So he can ruin that app, too.

11kelleyk.bsky.social•46 days ago

Convenient. Makes perf sense when we understand that even the US govt is for sale.

(Yes, I understand some would say it’s always been bought & paid for. It’s just obvi w/this group. In which case, it feels like all we can do is ugh).

Seems like 4 yrs of ugh is on the horizon for some reason.

pderush.bsky.social•46 days ago

What a mess

floofberrypharms.bsky.social•46 days ago

I’d rather have no TikTok.

robtcb007.bsky.social•46 days ago

The grand plan all along

kaptruthbetold.bsky.social•46 days ago

You mean they’re giving Tik Tok to their Apartheid comrade! IMO that’s the headline!

deveautrain.bsky.social•46 days ago

FFS.

nickbatzdorf.bsky.social•46 days ago

The SEC absolutely must not allow this.

robreds.bsky.social•46 days ago

Trump will be president. He will do everything to make it work if he wants it

nickbatzdorf.bsky.social•46 days ago

I know. :(

robreds.bsky.social•46 days ago

He would control 2 of the 3 and with zuck just caving. They will control all the news

nickbatzdorf.bsky.social•45 days ago

These people aren't giving up so quickly:

https://bsky.app/profile/tribelaw.bsky.social/post/3lfnj23qkjc2t

no1callsmemaurice.bsky.social•46 days ago

Mmmhmm. Fucking trash country

lazyretiree.bsky.social•46 days ago

Figured he would end up with it

christinmurphy.bsky.social•46 days ago

I would rather watch the app burn to the ground than have that mofo buy it

beeznplantz.bsky.social•46 days ago

TikTok is new to me because I jumped all the other ships. This dumb time suck is all I have left to keep me from rolling into a ball and rolling myself down a mountain. We need a mindless fun app in these times!

ericw314.bsky.social•46 days ago

So still would be the end of Tik Tok

nmcarlito.bsky.social•46 days ago

A consortium of dt supporters were trying to put together a package to buy TT. But now musk, with his chinese connections, is stepping in?

kayiso64.bsky.social•45 days ago

Only App is the one we are on right here.

lowinchen.bsky.social•46 days ago

FFS.

norcalbri.bsky.social•46 days ago

So, no free speech if it’s banned and no free speech if it’s not. Got it.

chardypeeres.bsky.social•45 days ago

Don’t suppose this can be stopped, right? Definitely should be banned, if this happens.🇨🇦

neiljrm.bsky.social•46 days ago

The Trump WH will be making its announcements over the US Tik Tok.. 60 second bites only as MAGATS cannot cope with more

moceanworker.bsky.social•45 days ago

Extreme projectile vomit.

thesuzabides.bsky.social•46 days ago

So Nazis doing dance trends and incels lighting cats on fire? Cool, cool.

weedmylips.bsky.social•46 days ago

Chinese officials??

I guess that all but confirms tiktok is controlled by the Chinese government

lovelymseb.bsky.social•45 days ago

Not a good thing.

onthepacific.bsky.social•46 days ago

So Elon is on the Chinese team after all - I always thought so ….

thedrewvawter.bsky.social•46 days ago

Oh, great, sell it to the nazi-loving drug-addled propagandist to turn it into a disinformation machine just like he did with twitter.

My dog, we truly are doomed.

billjondoyle.bsky.social•46 days ago

parasite’s gotta be parasitic

gypsyjenn.bsky.social•46 days ago

We would still be leaving. No Twitter, FB, instagram. No Musk and No Meta. 🤬

frankalulu.bsky.social•46 days ago

I'd rather have it banned than have that dishing ruining it.

frankalulu.bsky.social•45 days ago

Dishing = dipshit. Thanks autocorrect.

ashkb.bsky.social•46 days ago

Sick of this fucker

scottnutte.bsky.social•46 days ago

We CAN NOT allow Elon Musk to acquire tik tok!

ravingriveter.bsky.social•46 days ago

What the actual?

seangmc.bsky.social•46 days ago

what horseshit

tightcircles.bsky.social•46 days ago

@sethabramson.bsky.social

kokomojoe.bsky.social•46 days ago

Brownshirts Junior?
Apartheidnet?
Diktok?

Have a poll for the new name, you little pasty faced wesael.

premiumsteve.bsky.social•46 days ago

If there’s anyone you can rely on, it’s a ketamine-addled billionaire who is simultaneously dependent on China for his business operations and so pathetically dishonest that he cheats at videogames to impress internet strangers

russcastella.com•46 days ago

A literal worst case nightmare scenario.

japlail.bsky.social•45 days ago

What? The guy with business interests in China? Yeah.

debmo3.bsky.social•45 days ago

I will delete if this happens

jrobin.bsky.social•46 days ago

Because Elon will improve the way he improved Twitter! Cool!

discodaze.bsky.social•46 days ago

Elon wants nothing less then World Wide domination.

freshpeppers.bsky.social•46 days ago

But remember: TikTok operates without any involvement with the Chinese government!

🙄

handsomesquidward.bsky.social•46 days ago

m-palmer.bsky.social•46 days ago

Dude, people are talking about this here in Brazil... since Musk will work on the government... what corrupution means to you guys? or conflict of interest?

onlyonetkarras.com•46 days ago

blah, blah, blah, Elon Musk, blah, blah, blah.

heike1995.bsky.social•46 days ago

Meanwhile…

therealelaschuk.bsky.social•46 days ago

For all intents and purposes China owns Musk, so really, it’ll just stay in their hands.

gretakat.bsky.social•46 days ago

Great. Another app that I’ll have to delete.

geeezlouise.bsky.social•46 days ago

Oh God, please, NO

nlhg03.bsky.social•46 days ago

Good lord. Don't we have enough right wing propaganda already?

maryoot.bsky.social•46 days ago

From bad to worse.

jeanilou.bsky.social•46 days ago

So glad I don't use TikTok. I have an account because my millennial kids are always texting me some video from TikTok but I don't use it on my own.

jim85716.bsky.social•46 days ago

I thought the point was to LESSEN the risk to national security?

freedom2b.bsky.social•46 days ago

*snrt*

Keep in mind that this is the GOP that we are talking about.

maw1212.bsky.social•46 days ago

Get the fuck out of here!

bkchicago.bsky.social•46 days ago

Yeah, so musk will be the lieutenant of propaganda then? This is beyond troubling. It’s outrageous. Spotlight this because it needs all of the press it can get. It’s a bad movie come to life. How are we here?