5 ms·

>It would help address the spyware concern by moving it to a US company it might help for some people Personally, i'm a little bit concerned that microsoft ju

>It would help address the spyware concern by moving it to a US company it might help for some people Personally, i'm a little bit concerned that microsoft just received a $10bn DOD contract, and now the US government is essentially forcing a sale of TikTok to Microsoft. I'm not convinced that the company running the hot new social network (as well as all our source code) owing a bunch of favours to the US govermnent is really any better than it being subject to the Chinese government.

torbital 6y ago
A company occasionally working together with the US government is very different than China's state-run companies.
- knolax 6y ago
  Which ByteDance is not.
- notatoad 6y ago
  you're right. for me personally, i think it's much worse. the odds that chinese goverment data collection ever affects me is minimal. as a canadian citizen who sometimes visits the US and routinely uses services provided by american companies, the odds that US government data collection affects me in some way is pretty high.
  - smnrchrds 6y ago
    Indeed the US data collection can have a much deeper and more immediate negative effect on Canadians' lives. https://globalnews.ca/news/4461315/will-your-cannabis-credit-card-purchases-be-visible-to-u-s-border-officials-some-might-some-wont/ https://globalnews.ca/news/4461315/will-your-cannabis-credit...
- GoodJokes 6y ago
  Right, one works with the US and one works with China is different. US = good and China = bad. This is how world works. Grunt grunt
whoisjuan 6y ago
IMHO anything with more than 400 million users is very hard to fuck up as a platform. You can fuck up the product in many ways but you will preserve the strong network effects. Yahoo was also an incompetent operator with almost no solid business criteria or long term strategy. For 15 years or more Yahoo was simply a wannabe Google and never managed to find their business character. I mean, it’s almost criminal to compare the performance of Microsoft vs Yahoo as operators. They are in different leagues.
scarface74 6y ago
I thought we trusted the government to be a good steward over tech? Wasn’t that the entire purpose of the dog and pony show with tech CEOs earlier this week?
stjohnswarts 6y ago
It's better as in the US government isn't a model citizen but it's also not disappearing citizens, enslaving ethnic groups, selling organs from political prisoners, or trying to take over the South China Sea.
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]

torbital 6y ago

A company occasionally working together with the US government is very different than China's state-run companies.

knolax 6y ago
Which ByteDance is not.
notatoad 6y ago
you're right. for me personally, i think it's much worse. the odds that chinese goverment data collection ever affects me is minimal. as a canadian citizen who sometimes visits the US and routinely uses services provided by american companies, the odds that US government data collection affects me in some way is pretty high.
- smnrchrds 6y ago
  Indeed the US data collection can have a much deeper and more immediate negative effect on Canadians' lives. https://globalnews.ca/news/4461315/will-your-cannabis-credit-card-purchases-be-visible-to-u-s-border-officials-some-might-some-wont/ https://globalnews.ca/news/4461315/will-your-cannabis-credit...
GoodJokes 6y ago
Right, one works with the US and one works with China is different. US = good and China = bad. This is how world works. Grunt grunt

whoisjuan 6y ago

IMHO anything with more than 400 million users is very hard to fuck up as a platform. You can fuck up the product in many ways but you will preserve the strong network effects. Yahoo was also an incompetent operator with almost no solid business criteria or long term strategy. For 15 years or more Yahoo was simply a wannabe Google and never managed to find their business character. I mean, it’s almost criminal to compare the performance of Microsoft vs Yahoo as operators. They are in different leagues.

scarface74 6y ago

I thought we trusted the government to be a good steward over tech? Wasn’t that the entire purpose of the dog and pony show with tech CEOs earlier this week?

stjohnswarts 6y ago

It's better as in the US government isn't a model citizen but it's also not disappearing citizens, enslaving ethnic groups, selling organs from political prisoners, or trying to take over the South China Sea.

deleted 6y ago
[deleted]