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ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (www.reuters.com)
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[โ€“] Album@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fwiw I'm not American.

[โ€“] whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's not worth anything, your argument was that the US being such a small percentage of tiktoks userbase meant that the American market is only worthwhile to TikTok as a spying tool. Which does not make any sense.

I'm saying that tiktok has other markets in other countries, and the US only represents a small part of their global reach, so of course tiktok would only be a small percentage of their userbase.