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I wonder if the "deal" was going to be just "we'll run your US infrastructure (and keep data) in the US, on Azure, and we split the money" rather than a buyout ? That would make more sense to me.

So more like "Microsoft will invest X billion for a Y% of TikTok and run its US operations".

You could satisfy the US government that Microsoft was guaranteeing the data would not be shipped to China.

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I don't see how with that arrangement they could guarantee the app is also not collecting and uploading data in addition to the data saved on Microsoft's servers. It would come down to trying to prove a negative which is not really possible outside of trivial cases.

The only way to make that arrangement work would be to give Microsoft access to the source and ability/responsibility to review the source/releases. Not exactly a great Setup for either party.

I thought Trump already said no to that plan.

Yeah and the article also says that it was an actual buyout of Bytedance's share. oh well. interesting times.

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