I think it's a bad idea because I think TicTok is only a year or two away from their peak until another app catches the zeitgeist.
MySpace was incredibly popular. Now it's used by the underbelly of society.
I mean...money? TikTok is massive. Slightly smaller than Instagram, more than double the size of Twitter. It's a bargain even at $50bn.
Watch as the political "poison" of TikTok's rampant user surveillance is magically transmuted away once it is acquired by an American tech company!
But that's the exact issue, it's political poison because of who owns it. Why would it be "magically transmuted away"? That's literally the entire point.
My point is that it's funny that what makes TikTok poisonous is not the incredibly intrusive surveillance itself, but rather the fact that it's being done by a foreign company/government (which ultimately can probably do a lot less harm to Americans with all that info than Microsoft or the US government).
Yep, probably the main reason why they want to sell it to a US based company.
Tiktok bans all political content. It's literally the opposite of politically poisonous.