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georgetakei.bsky.social • 160 days ago

Let's not.

After Bloomberg released a report claiming that the Chinese government is considering selling the popular app to the X owner, a spokesperson for TikTok poured cold water on the notion.

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lxpeanut.bsky.social•159 days ago

So Musk has just used the Government to try a hostile takeover because his company is failing.

jegath.bsky.social•160 days ago

😟

little-thieves.com•159 days ago

I have no idea why they thought Tiktok would do this. Why on earth would they want Elon getting his grubby hands on their wildly successful IP that neither he nor Zuck have been able to replicate?

inquisitors.bsky.social•160 days ago

Which means it must be 100 % true.

isabellav60.bsky.social•160 days ago

I couldn’t be more thrilled to hear that he’s going to go ahead and buy it!

neptunelover.bsky.social•159 days ago

Would it be too painful if people would disconnect from Twitter or other apps? I did.

neptunelover.bsky.social•159 days ago

Stop using his apps or products......

nickdineen.bsky.social•160 days ago

He did so well with Twitter.

extanis1961.bsky.social•160 days ago

Imagine the horror Tik Tok would become under Musk!

z28-310.bsky.social•160 days ago

“Let’s” ?

How are you involved?

chris94803.bsky.social•158 days ago

i agree.. let's not

vtach.bsky.social•159 days ago

Correct look at his "free" speech platform where "free" speech only applies to him.

kmwacasey.bsky.social•160 days ago

Best way to kill TikTok is to sell it to musk

atxdj.bsky.social•160 days ago

Don’t you mean the best way to sell TikTok is to kill… (fill in the blank 😂

kmwacasey.bsky.social•160 days ago

Not going there...lol

atxdj.bsky.social•160 days ago

I held back… 😂

mouse1023.bsky.social•159 days ago

Um... yep. 🤣

decusq7.bsky.social•159 days ago

Why sell a popular IP to a man who has proven he has no idea how to run a business and his only claim to fame is just being rich off other people??? Twitter was worth 5.6 Billion in 2022 before he bought it and now it's worth less then 500 Million as X, the man only knows how to ruin things.

ljuansan.bsky.social•160 days ago

😱😱🙏🏻

tribe303.bsky.social•158 days ago

Canadian Trump ass-kisser and traitor Kevin O'Leary is trying to raise the money to buy it. That arrogant short bald prick from Shark Tank. You know, the one who got his wife to take the fall in a drunken boat accident that killed someone. Yah.. Him!

robishungry.bsky.social•160 days ago

Even the Chinese know musk doesn't have the money 😂

davemaru.bsky.social•160 days ago

He’d rename it ‘X video’ and get sued by a porn site

spolem.net•159 days ago

Unfollowed. I love you and what you stand for, but I can’t handle all these links from comicsans. Ads between every paragraph and on top of everything else. There has to be another website you can share which isn’t this insulting to the reader’s eyes and time.

thewokestgamer.bsky.social•160 days ago

Doesn't change much, it's already owned by a different right wing billionaire.

deborahknits.bsky.social•160 days ago

Let Musk buy Tik Tok. He will destroy it like he did with Twitter.

emteasea.bsky.social•160 days ago

Glad that's not true. If Muskrat bought it, I would have to leave. He'd just turn it into another hellscape.

realbluerose.bsky.social•160 days ago

This would be Musk’s dream, to spew his racist and misogynistic views to our youth.

No one should have type of power!

lydiaelder.bsky.social•159 days ago

To be blunt, it’s such an American-centric perspective to assume that TikTok won’t continue or can’t be successful without US users.

They have over ✨1 billion✨ active users monthly worldwide; only 16-17% of those are American. They’ll be just fine.

boenke.net•160 days ago

Does that mean it's a done deal?

begnionbeauty.bsky.social•159 days ago

Ahhh yes if America owns it it'll be fine to use, but if a foreign country owns it, it's fake news, misinformation and bad for the American people 🙄

scottage.me•160 days ago

I'm more likely to use a fully-banned TikTok than I am to use a Musk-owned TikTok.

idowa.bsky.social•160 days ago

That person’s face should not be posted on this site.

twocvbloke.bsky.social•160 days ago

Just proves the notion that a lie spreads faster than the truth, just like a wildfire (an unfortunate choice of metaphor to use at the moment, I know, but it is relevant!)...

phill.hallambaker.com•160 days ago

TikTok continues to have international value even if it is banned in the US.

jonathanrenfield.bsky.social•159 days ago

They don’t understand. If TikTok sells to the America, it won’t be the same platform, and therefore, won’t matter as hard as its “golden era”. Don’t these people pay attention to their own market trends, and its consumers?!

teagsamatic.bsky.social•159 days ago

I didn't think it was a real thing

crs1.bsky.social•160 days ago

Media just makes up 💩 positive to GOP

alemancreates.bsky.social•159 days ago

Everyone hates Elon

atheist-pizza.bsky.social•160 days ago

Elon pisses his hoarded money away on rockets and acquiring platforms to advertise derelicts like Trump. Putting the super rich on a pedestal is poor culture.

msknuckles1.bsky.social•160 days ago

Thank u. It would have been musk 24/7 preeming around promoting himself. 😝

pwrussell.bsky.social•159 days ago

He doesn’t have enough power and influence yet, so why not?

omgchaoskitten.bsky.social•159 days ago

they’ll probably just ban it, clone it and release it themselves.

jojodeshazer.bsky.social•160 days ago

Honestly, that was probably the plan from the start.

xaoslorderie.bsky.social•159 days ago

I wouldn't sell a 2 X 4 to the MuskRAT.

bluemapletemple.bsky.social•160 days ago

Yeah let’s not.

ronaldtootall.bsky.social•160 days ago

Twitter's value declined by roughly 80%, from $44B to $9.6B. In contrast, TikTok is valued at approximately $300 billion. Musk isn't going to use his own money and won't find backers for that much, especially with the potential risk of losing billions ($234 billion if the same ratio applies).

ncxiao.bsky.social•159 days ago

The art of reading Chinese (mainland only) is to read it opposite. So when they say capitalism is bad, you read it is good. The same for this one. Lifelong lesson.

thecovey.bsky.social•160 days ago

Oh, yes, Please! Let him do to Tiktok what he did to X.

jerrod.bsky.social•159 days ago

Mr Beast has his hat in the ring.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2025/01/15/mrbeast-tiktok-ban-potential-buyer/77692390007/

jerrod.bsky.social•159 days ago

Seeing as musk would be an employee of the White House which would have to approve the sale it would be litigated for years if they tried to do it.

tiredofthisshit.bsky.social•159 days ago

Fuck Elon Musk. Let him go buy Mars. Worthless piece of shit.

jaywilliams.pro•160 days ago

Enshitification of EVERYTHING continues

fionaskywalker.bsky.social•160 days ago

Didn't twitter say the same!?

chrisbourne.bsky.social•159 days ago

Not sure what would be worse for users....a government ban or President Musk running it,

dominiondem.bsky.social•160 days ago

TikTok selling to Elon Musk is like selling the bible to the devil.

No human being should have so much wealth as Musk. It is a HUGE existential threat to civilized society. Democracies across the world must bridle the billionaire class to protect the public & planet earth. GREED is destroying us!

af68.bsky.social•160 days ago

On Wednesday night, Biden will announce musk & tRump have been charged with Conspiracy to DEFRAUD U.S.🤩😍

https://bsky.app/profile/af1968.bsky.social/post/3lfdga3qvsk2p thread summarizes my beliefs. Source information is in my pinned posts.

inkbear.com•160 days ago

What would Elon buy TikTok with? He borrowed against Tesla stock to buy Twitter The boy is leveraged to the rafters. His only hope is getting an orange parachute.

richbl1.bsky.social•159 days ago

Frankly I have to agree. Elaine's done an up damage to his own platform, why ruin another one.

texanorcparty.bsky.social•159 days ago

As soon as that happens gone. I’m not watching Elon pull another twitter.

mouse1023.bsky.social•159 days ago

Already moved to RedNote as an FU to the GOP. Now would be the perfect excuse for me to learn to speak Chinese.

smidgendublin.bsky.social•160 days ago

Can we not pour endless cold water on #spacekaren forever? Could fix a lot of notions.

andyholtondj.bsky.social•159 days ago

It seems he is willing to part with vast amounts of money in order to silence people.
Makes you wonder what his part of the deal really is 🤔

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