We are approaching what seems to be an appropriate ending ending for a stupid fight over Tiktok.
Idiocy is a hard word, and I speak seriously. The most important part: The Trump government’s solution to keep the application in the United States runs the risk of turning it into another social media platform that was already great.
The White House is negotiating an agreement to (or at least one version of it) to be separated from its Chinese controller, bytedance, and transferred to an American company.
Who would stay with the assets in the US? So far, we know that Oracle, a technology multinational that already provides cloud storage in the US for Tiktok, would take on a participation.
Other potential investors include private capital company Silver Lake, technology investment company Andreesen Horowitz and Fox Corp., owned by the American businessman’s family businessman Rupert Murdoch.
No need to force the eyes to understand the theme: Oracle was founded by Trump’s ally and megabillionaire Larry Ellison, and has been administered in the last decade by another ally of Trump, crop Catz, who resigned on Monday (22).
New Tiktok rules in the USA
Under the agreement, Oracle, in cooperation with the government, would monitor the US algorithm to “ensure that the content is free from manipulation or improper surveillance,” according to a high White House employee.
All of this is happening because former US President Joe Biden has authorized a bipartisan bill, approved by US legislators, forcing the sale or prohibition of the video sharing application in April 2024, based on hypothetical national security concerns.
The Supreme Court maintained the ban in January, and Trump repeatedly extended a period of 90 days for the ban or sales to occur while negotiating an agreement with.
In short, the chances of a possible Chinese US data manipulation would be much lower. The chances of another control of a superpopular social media application on the right have increased exponentially.
There is still a lot we don’t know, including which other investors are involved, how much are they disbursing and if users will have to download a new application?
Answers to these questions will be crucial for American -owned Tiktok to work.
“For now, the deal is still under development,” said Alex Falcone, a comedian with more than 626,000 followers at Tiktok.
“But obviously it doesn’t seem promising … Tiktok is a perfectly balanced ecosystem, so if they hesitate, they will kill all their lives in it overnight.”
Goals that need to be achieved
Tiktok’s new owners need to keep their 170 million users eager to roll the screen in the US if they want to profit from it. And investors named so far have mixed experience in social media.
Oracle is not a consumer -oriented technology company, although it has a longtime relationship with Tiktok, hosting its data.
The News Corp. Murdoch mainly has TV properties and traditional newspapers. The company bought the social media site MySpace in 2005, just to sell it with loss in 2011.
Silver Lake was one of Twitter’s first investors, and Andreesen Horowitz invested in Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest, among others.
A change of property certainly damaged some platforms in the past. When Elon Musk bought Twitter (currently X), he destroyed the site, knocked down barriers, leading users and advertisers to abandon the platform.
“Although it is still speculative, we can see a similar dynamic to repeat itself,” said Jasmine Enberg, the main analyst of the Emarketer market research company on Monday (22).
It is true that Musk spent most of his own money on Twitter and did not report to shareholders, so it didn’t matter if he was setting the money.
The deal with Tiktok would have to deal with the members of the investor’s corporate council, who have a duty to ensure that no one can get an expensive asset like Tiktok and turn it into some kind of right-wing megaphone.
The Trump government – which only last year sued ABC, CBS, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal – and their corporate supporters are not exactly hiding their desire to control mass media. (Just ask a.)
Although Trump attributes to Tiktok the increase in the number of vows of young republicans by 2024, Tiktok users are mostly young and left. If a right -handed application outlet occurs, we may have a repetition of the Twitter saga, and a large number of Tiktok users would probably run.
Content breeders that depend on the application of the application had more than a year to prepare for its end, and many have been building their followers bases on rival platforms such as Reels (Instagram), Youtube and even other Chinese ownership applications, such as RedNote – all who had an increase in traffic when Tiktok was temporarily out of the air earlier this year.
Tiktok will not be able to die if its main user base leaves. It will become a refuge for anyone, or any bot, create the type of bait of engagement and the mess of the AI that now dominates Facebook and X.
