Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months agoByteDance would rather shut down tiktok than sell ithexbear.netimagemessage-square122fedilinkarrow-up1270arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1270arrow-down1imageByteDance would rather shut down tiktok than sell ithexbear.netAssian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square122fedilinkfile-text
https://www.reuters.com/technology/bytedance-prefers-tiktok-shutdown-us-if-legal-options-fail-sources-say-2024-04-25/
minus-squarealcoholicornlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up59·7 months ago<15% of Tiktok’s monthly user base are American. They wouldn’t shut the entire app down, just the US portion, which is already more expensive because they implemented US-only servers and moderation they don’t do for other countries in 2022.
minus-squareAcidLeaves [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·edit-27 months agoNot to mention they have almost 10k US employees, 2k of them being engineers averaging ~400k salaries Meanwhile senior ByteDance engineers in China make like 100k USD
<15% of Tiktok’s monthly user base are American. They wouldn’t shut the entire app down, just the US portion, which is already more expensive because they implemented US-only servers and moderation they don’t do for other countries in 2022.
Not to mention they have almost 10k US employees, 2k of them being engineers averaging ~400k salaries
Meanwhile senior ByteDance engineers in China make like 100k USD