AUSTIN | Economic Development

[lonewolf]

Originally Posted by austlar1

Please illuminate me on the topic before the mods shut us down. Bill Gates also seems a bit perplexed by the TikTok shuffle. The best he can come up with is that it is "pretty bizarre" and "singly strange". Referring to the Trump proposal that the federal government take a cut of any sales proceeds, Gates (who stands to be a big beneficiary of any deal with Microsoft) calls it "doubly strange". To me it just looks like a naked shake down, almost a gangster move, by a sovereign nation. Apparently I am not the only one who sees it that way. Here are a few sample headlines. There are at least a dozen more to be found:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolo...tech-industry/

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020...ft-tiktok-deal

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertb.../#3d8d235330ce

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/...onal-security/

I agree with you the deal with microsoft doesn't pass sniff test.

here is a place to start. there is no small amount of literature or anecdotes of people within industry leaking info about this app. this is a jumping off point https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comm...t_get/fmuko1m/

it's not that i think tiktok is doing something our tech companies aren't (i think they all do it) it's the fact that it is literally beholden to the CCP AND it's snooping as much/moreso than all our tech companies