It will have American leadership with fiduciary duty to stockholders, not Bejing.
If Bytedance headquarters got a CCP memo about someone to hire at the US datacenter, it would just happen. There was a straight official line of control from Xi to managers at TikTok US, that line is going to disappear. Routine streams of data to China to provide cover and plausible deniability for data exfiltration will disappear too.
Now if Xi wants TikTok US data, he will need to use proper spycraft.
If I watch some Gaza stuff on Youtube, the frontpage offers more. I doubt it's any different for X.
The ban on TikTok was because US government realised they could track gays working at the Pentagon through Grindr, it was an extension of the forced divestment there because. Social media apps with GPS access are treasure troves of intelligence data. The first TikTok law predated the Gaza conflict.
Free trade should be done only between like minded nations. Trade with adversaries should be goal based and allowing foreign investment by adversaries is fucking idiotic
What censorship do you see exactly on youtube? Ever since Trump-1, the social media companies have been intentionally handsoff with the algorithm AFAICS.
The more ephemeral nature of Tiktok might give more visibility to extreme viewpoints I guess, but that's more due to the format.
How are juniors supposed to be mentored and gain on the job experience to become the seniors of the future then?
They won't and the companies don't care. The plan is to just pay millions of dollars to poach the lucky few from their competitors.
Are you sure that there wasn't a manager directing the actions of the low-level people?
There is already a multi-state compact that would provide a Electoral college vote that represents the vote of the population:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But this will never happen, because the rural states with outsized representation will never give up their power.
They elected Trump because the previous President suffering from dementia and elected only by bypassing the primaries, hired a wholly unqualified and incompetent minority vagina to become America's first Open Border Czar, who went on to run for President.
Unqualified? Exactly what were Trump's qualifications in 2016? Frittering away daddy's money and bankrupting a bunch of casinos while ripping off ordinary tradesmen?
You don't care about qualifications.
There is only one pre-election promise that Trump has kept. It's to do with kicking darker-skinned people out of the USA and that's why MAGA remains faithful.
They seem to fear manipulation of the Microsoft hypervisor running VBS. Which is comforting in a way, at least we know their rootkit doesn't go that deep.
"A mind is a terrible thing to have leaking out your ears." -- The League of Sadistic Telepaths
