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No one thinks this has to do with the relationship between the US President and Oracle? Amazon is throwing a fit because they weren’t chosen to be the Pentagons
by elheffe80 6y ago
No one thinks this has to do with the relationship between the US President and Oracle? Amazon is throwing a fit because they weren’t chosen to be the Pentagons cloud provider. Now this. It’s favoritism.
- tessierashpool 6y agoSilicon Valley letting this happen without even complaining a little: very disturbing.
- dartdartdart 6y agoI remember tech CEOs complains when h1B visas got cut bc they loved the cheap labor. Silicon valley only jumps in if it benefits their bottom line or for good PR
- rnet85 6y ago“Cheap labor” people with visa in FANG companies get paid the same salary as the non visa people, and it was the FANG ceos who complained, so I’m not sure I understand your comment.
- xvector 6y agoTikTok is a black sheep because as soon as you defend it against the US, you’re painted as a Chinese shill advocating for Uighur genocide. It’s no wonder that Silicon Valley is uninterested in defending it, despite the fact that this sort of deal is likely to severely fracture how tech services are treated by governments in the future.
- jacobush 6y agoIt's sad that we are even looking to what stance tech companies have on human rights issues. The government should have sanctioned China severely already, tariffs, you name it.
- ehsankia 6y agoAt leas the pentagon deal was government related. Why the hell is the government putting it's nose up private deals like this and also asking for a cut?
- outside1234 6y agoI think your answer is right there at the end. They want a cut.
- hooande 6y agoThe federal budget is hundreds of tiktoks. and where would the money even go?
- DoctorOW 6y agoI love the cynicism of believing that the presidency is interfering in the deals, but the optimism of believing that it must then go towards Federal budgets and not certain people's pockets. :)
- gbear605 6y agoIt’s not cynicism that he’s interfering when it’s obvious - literally Trump making statements on his Twitter. As for the money into his pocket; no need, the reasoning for Trump is that it makes his voters like him (since they dislike China), which gets him reelected.
- manquer 6y agoTrump wants the cut , he is not asking for one to actually fund the federal budget. He wants one to score with the voters. Given the unusual nature of the ask , it could be a donation to the project of his choicing like the wall
- Barrin92 6y agobecause the government is run like a shady real estate company from the 80s, the president's term for the cut was quite literally, 'key money'
- rvz 6y agoWell in this case, ByteDance was the one that rejected the Microsoft/Walmart deal. Not the US President. 'ByteDance let us know today they would not be selling TikTok’s US operations to Microsoft.' [0] [0] https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/13/microsoft-statement-on-tiktok/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/09/13/microsoft-statem...
- beisner 6y agoWell that doesn’t mean much, the White House could have signaled to ByteDance on the DL that they’d torpedo any non-Oracle deal... who knows, banning a single company from operating domestically without any immediate proven national security threat is unprecedented, the president just does whatever he feels like.