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cjbgkagh 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with...

What's to stop ByteDance from waiting a while and making a new TikTok app under a different name? The network effect moats do not seem insurmountable. I'm sure once the US starts meddling with the algorithm people will start looking for alternatives.

basisword 9 months ago [–]

>> What's to stop ByteDance from waiting a while and making a new TikTok app under a different name?

I'm sure this deal is more complex than "ByteDance is not allowed to run an app called TikTok within the US". Politicians are morons so I could be wrong but I would hope it's much more liberal than that.

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