Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/03/15/right-wing-weirdos-eager-to-buy-tik-tok-after-house-votes-to-force-chinese-owners-to-sell-it.html
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If recent history is any indication then the quickest way to kill a social media platform is to let a bunch of nutty right wingers take control of it.
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Here’s hoping it’s like when News Corp bought Myspace, only to find it had become a ghost town and everyone had moved on to some other platform.
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Twitter 2.0.
TikTok’s demographic will quit it faster than the speed of light. They don’t get the point: The kids and young people want to get away from them. They can own the carcass but the souls will go somewhere else.
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Except for the ones that stick around, BECAUSE it was bought by the far right… and the new people it will attract because of that. It won’t be nearly the same number of people, but it will likely be enough to keep it limping along…
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“TikTok is a Chinese surveillance and propaganda platform! That’s outrageous – it should be our surveillance and propaganda platform!”
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Also, “But they could use TikTok to hack your phone and control it?” Dude…do you know where your iPhone was made?
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“If anyone’s going to be a threat to the republic, it should be US!!!”
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The State forcing the sale of a company is good now? (Rhetorical)
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Musk will have competition in his race for the bottom of the dumpster.
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But nothing to rein in the home-grown social media platforms that promote Nazi ideologies, sow division, amplify election lies and one of which was actively involved promoting a genocide in Myanmar?
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The day that MAGAworld went to war with the stans. Not just the Taylor Swift ones, not just the K-Pop ones, All The Stans.
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MAGA is jealous of all the russian oligarch riches and want to profit from the same kind of forced divestments.
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More and more stuff to buy.
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I wonder what sort of retaliation such a forced sale would provoke against US businesses operating in China.
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