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Other companies are also in talks, but Microsoft is the furthest along/having the best chance.
by partiallypro 6y ago
Other companies are also in talks, but Microsoft is the furthest along/having the best chance.
- TMWNN 6y agoMore to the point, Microsoft is the company least involved in social media that has the largest warchest. No way Congress or the administration would condone any of the companies whose CEOs testified on Capitol Hill this week buying TikTok.
- tdhoot 6y agoAmazon and Apple don't really have a social media presence either.
- shalmanese 6y agoAmazon has Twitch
- marc__1 6y agoTechnically Microsoft owned 1.6% shares before Facebook's IPO, and last information I could get it had sold 20% of the proceeds post-IPO in 2012, so they are somewhat involved in social media. [1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-offloads-20-percent-of-its-facebook-shares-report/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-offloads-20-percent-...
- flycaliguy 6y agoYeah, you're right. That investment means they are somewhat involved in social media.
- justaguy88 6y agoAt 1% (minus 20% of that too) it's basically meaningless
- dragonwriter 6y ago> More to the point, Microsoft is the company least involved in social media that has the largest warchest Probably not, no matter how you prioritize the two prongs of that, and no matter which construction of war chest size you take, since Alphabet and Apple both less social media involvement (though Alphabet has tried in the past to have more) and more cash on hand, while both Apple and Amazon have less social media involvement and greater market cap.
- kshacker 6y agoWhether you want to dance (TikTok) or code (github), we got you covered.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Whether you want to dance (TikTok) or code (github), Or work (LinkedIn)
- JacKTrocinskI 6y agoOr talk (Skype)
- techntoke 6y agoAlmost every kid at my daughter's elementary school has TikTok installed and they are all under 13. If you have an Android phone, they do basically no verification to register and then if you go to your Google Account you can see that they share your email and personal data with TikTok. This is a major COPPA violation. Does this mean Microsoft may soon be the biggest violator of COPPA in the US?
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoThe FTC's guidance specifically allows services to rely on a user's self-reported age. See https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/complying-coppa-frequently-asked-questions-0 https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/com..., under the heading "Will the COPPA Rule prevent children from lying about their age to register for general audience sites or online services whose terms of service prohibit their participation?"
- 0xy 6y agoEvery company does this. Discord, Twitter, Instagram all have scores of children under 13 on their platforms. As long as they did reasonable CYA then they cannot really be held accountable.
- 8organicbits 6y agoIn practice, can't that easily be resolved by prompting each user to verify they are at least 13 years old, enter their age, or enter their birthday?
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- cable2600 6y agoEnter their birthday. My son and his friends and cousins always enter the year of their birthday as 1955 so that they appear to be old men when they were under 13. They never answer honestly and it is like having a fake ID. Microsoft used to have a Passport service that could verify a user, just add in an ID to verify age scan your driver's license or whatever and send it to Microsoft passport. It is an extra step but you don't want the kiddies looking at nudes and violence and hate speech.