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    ByteDance would rather shut down TikTok than sell the company=C2=A0=20

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    BYTEDANCE 'WOULD RATHER' TORPEDO TIKTOK THAN SELL IT OFF (2 MINUTE
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    ByteDance would rather shut down TikTok than sell the compan=
    y. The US
    only provides a quarter of TikTok's global revenue and only rep=
    resents
    5% of ByteDance's daily active users across all of its media
    pl=
    atforms. The short deadline to sell would likely put downward
    pressure on=
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    appealing. Selling=
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    that power TikTok and it=
    s video recommendations, which raises more
    complications.=20

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    THE ROBOTICS RENAISSANCE (13 MINUTE READ) [7=
    ]=20

    Intelligent androids will be a part of industrial activities and=

    aspects of everyday life over the next decade. Modern AI models have
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    Voyager 1 spacecraft after fi=
    ve months of long-distance
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    rajectory more than 15
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    entually found
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to TLDR on Fri Apr 26 11:47:00 2024
    TLDR wrote to tldr@synchro.net <=-

    BYTEDANCE 'WOULD RATHER' TORPEDO TIKTOK THAN SELL IT OFF (2 MINUTE
    READ) [5]

    ByteDance would rather shut down TikTok than sell the company. The US only provides a quarter of TikTok's global revenue and only represents
    5% of ByteDance's daily active users across all of its media
    platforms.

    Didn't Trump try to sell it to Larry Ellison?

    So, why not just geolock the US from the app and let the US government
    look foolish and piss off their constituents?

    People will feel like they're all hax0rish by sideloading TikTok and
    using VPN to access it.

    What's really going on here is that we want the algorithms. It's not
    about personal data safety.



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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Apr 27 06:49:44 2024
    Re: TikTok threatens shutdown ", FCC passes net neutrality ", the robotics
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to TLDR on Fri Apr 26 2024 06:47 am

    What's really going on here is that we want the algorithms. It's not
    about personal data safety.

    The ones that recommend what video to watch next? :)

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to ALL on Sat Apr 27 15:14:00 2024
    BYTEDANCE 'WOULD RATHER' TORPEDO TIKTOK THAN SELL IT OFF (2 MINUTE
    READ) [5]

    ByteDance would rather shut down TikTok than sell the company. The US
    only provides a quarter of TikTok's global revenue and only represents
    5% of ByteDance's daily active users across all of its media
    platforms. The short deadline to sell would likely put downward
    pressure on any potential sale price, making the option even less
    appealing. Selling the company would mean divesting the algorithms
    that power TikTok and its video recommendations, which raises more complications.

    Those complications being that whoever got them would find out what all
    they've been up to. PBS did a special about some of the things their algorithms have been known to do (like shadowbanning minorities and the
    elderly -- something that ByteDance does because the CCP wants it that way)
    and exposed how the folks at Tik Tok USA apparently had no idea that the software was even doing that -- which should make you wonder what else it
    might be doing that they have no idea about.

    Other social media giants may do similar things but, unlike ByteDance, they
    are not beholden to the Chinese Communist Party. I am not certain why that doesn't bother some people like it should.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to phigan on Sat Apr 27 22:33:03 2024
    Re: TikTok threatens shutdown ", FCC passes net neutrality ", the robotics
    By: phigan to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Apr 27 2024 01:49 am

    What's really going on here is that we want the algorithms. It's not about
    personal data safety.

    The ones that recommend what video to watch next? :)

    Yes, they're scary good. Imagine hooking predictive shopping into that algorithm. Build an ecommerce cite, you swipe on clothes, give it some personal information and they send you a bunch of clothes with a return label for the ones you don't want.
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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to Dumas Walker on Sun Apr 28 16:57:51 2024
    Re: TikTok threatens shutdown
    By: Dumas Walker to ALL on Sat Apr 27 2024 10:14 am

    Other social media giants may do similar things but, unlike ByteDance, they are not beholden to the Chinese Communist Party. I am not certain why that doesn't bother some people like it should.

    Really, why is it surprising or bothersome? These are just private companies. They're not utilities, even, or any kind of necessity, or anything beyond entertainment bullshit. IMO they should be able to do whatever the hell they want (obviously within local laws). You don't have to use their service.
    I know I don't :).

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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Sun Apr 28 20:47:00 2024
    Yes, they're scary good. Imagine hooking predictive shopping into that algorith
    . Build an ecommerce cite, you swipe on clothes, give it some personal informat
    on and they send you a bunch of clothes with a return label for the ones you do
    't want.

    Amazon currently predicts and suggests other products based on your buying habits, although they don't go so far as to send them to you unordered.

    For that matter, your cell phone hears conversations and then the next time
    you use social media you will see advertising for whatever products you discussed.

    I don't think they need Tik Tok's algorithm that badly.


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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to PHIGAN on Mon Apr 29 13:13:00 2024
    Other social media giants may do similar things but, unlike ByteDance, they
    are not beholden to the Chinese Communist Party. I am not certain why that
    doesn't bother some people like it should.

    Really, why is it surprising or bothersome? These are just private companies. They're not utilities, even, or any kind of necessity, or anything beyond entertainment bullshit. IMO they should be able to do whatever the hell they want (obviously within local laws). You don't have to use their service.
    I know I don't :).

    They are not all private companies. ByteDance, parent of Tik Tok, is owned
    in part by the Chinese Communist Party. All Chinese companies are, and
    they all must do as they are told by the party or someone else will be put in charge of them.

    A few years back, the big Tik Tok challenges here were eating Tide pods and some other potentially deadly stunt (forget what it was now). Who is to
    say that the CCP hadn't set the algorithm to make sure that plenty of those videos were shown here?

    I *don't* use their service, but a whole lot of younger people do.


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