2026-01-23
The Trump administration has given its blessing to a deal that allows ByteDance to keep 19.9 percent of the company, keeps the new U.S. entity run by a longtime TikTok senior executive, and that will “retrain the algorithm on U.S. data.” This is a complete violation of the law
Financial Times
The US' TikTok deal is a win for ByteDance: it will keep and license the algorithm instead of selling it, and continue to run TikTok's commercial activities
Jim Secreto /Financial Times:
The Trump administration has given its blessing to a deal that allows ByteDance to keep 19.9 percent of the company, keeps the new U.S. entity run by a longtime TikTok senior executive, and that will “retrain the algorithm on U.S. data.” This is a complete violation of the law
New York Times
ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US entity and avoid a federal ban, concluding a six-year legal saga
TikTok said on Thursday that its Chinese owner, ByteDance, had struck a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new U.S. TikTok …
2024-07-17
Donald Trump paused his discussion of economic issues with Bloomberg BusinessWeek to contemplate the mysteries of who orders regular Coke and who orders Diet Coke. https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
Bloomberg
Donald Trump says “I'm for TikTok, because you need competition”, and “if you don't have TikTok, you have Facebook and Instagram” and “that's Zuckerberg”
It's late June, and Donald Trump is plotting his next presidency in the gilded offseason isolation of the Mar-a-Lago Club.
2019-10-11
A once-trendy and popular cause that gradually disappeared from the American popular consciousness as our economy grew more intertwined with China's: https://www.nationalreview.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
@grummz
[Thread] Former World of Warcraft developer lead denounces Blizzard, says Chinese investment in game companies is silencing voices for freedom and democracy
Mark Kern / @grummz :
A once-trendy and popular cause that gradually disappeared from the American popular consciousness as our economy grew more intertwined with China's: https://www.nationalreview.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Electronic Frontier Foundation
China is now projecting its Internet power abroad using state-sponsored DDoS attacks, malware, client-side filtering and surveillance, economic sanctions, more
Those outside the People's Republic of China (PRC) are accustomed to thinking of the Internet censorship practices of the Chinese state …
2019-10-10
A once-trendy and popular cause that gradually disappeared from the American popular consciousness as our economy grew more intertwined with China's: https://www.nationalreview.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Stratechery
As China exports its domestic standards, the US should treat China's leveraging of market access into self-censorship by US companies as trade violations
A single tweet … Reuters : TikTok's Musical.ly deal needs U.S. national security review: senator Tony Xu / TechNode : US official presses for review of Bytedance's Musical.ly acqui...
A once-trendy and popular cause that gradually disappeared from the American popular consciousness as our economy grew more intertwined with China's: https://www.nationalreview.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Apple removes app from the App Store that tracked Hong Kong police and protests after pressure from China, says it “violates our guidelines and local laws”
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple removed an app on Wednesday that enabled protesters in Hong Kong to track police …