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Bytedance is not owned by the Chinese government. It's an independent company, as is TikTok.

• jjulius 6y ago
  > As with many Chinese companies, the company has an internal Chinese Communist Party committee serving the party members among the employees, with vice president Zhang Fuping serving as its Party Committee Secretary. It also has a strategic partnership with the Ministry of Public Security for the ministry's public relations efforts, and joint ventures with a state-run publisher in Beijing and media firm in Shanghai. ... It has garnered public attention over allegations that it worked with the Chinese Communist Party to censor and surveil content pertaining to Xinjiang re-education camps and other topics the Party deemed controversial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance
  • Dahoon 6y ago
    Wikipedia is not a good source one way or the other.
    • Cthulhu_ 6y ago
      You're not citing a better source either agreeing or opposing the argument made though.
  • bduerst 6y ago
    Yes, for their TaoTiao subsidiary, not TikTok. It says right there in your link that Bytedance is legally a Cayman's Islands company.