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Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

First off, source? Second, the npr interview I heard mentioned specifically that China has to approve the sale because the algorithm is proprietary to a Chinese company. So anyone "buying TikTok" is buying a name and none of the actual bones of the social media platform

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

source?

First page when you google 'Steve Mnuchin'

the npr interview I heard

source?

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not who you were replying to, and not an interview, but here's an NPR article that explains that the content-recommendation algorithms would be difficult to sell

Chinese officials have placed content-recommendation algorithms on what is known as an export-control list, meaning the government has additional say over how the technology is ever sold.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Neat, ty!

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Aren't the bones the cheap part now? Think truth social for instance, why was it supposedly worth so much if anyone can spin up a Mastadon instance and make it the same restrictions over the weekend. The userbase numbers are all that mattered there I assume. Why is reddit worth more than Lemmy? Is it because the bones are expensive? Or is it that they have access to a large userbase already.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

the reason truth social was so highly valued is probably related to trumps chronic addiction to over valuing his assets by about 10-100x the original value of them.

you would think the userbase of truth social would be big, it's not. It's several orders of magnitude smaller than twitter, and it's value is theorized to be heavily independent of the actual user count, the board of truth literally said as much. I.E. basically fucking bullshit.