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It's interesting how most commenters seem to forget about TikTok users. Every interest is taken into account, China, USA, intelligence services, TikTok "competition". Users somehow never enter the picture for most people in any other way than as gullible idiots getting exploited by the aforementioned parties.



In this model, users are the consumers and therefore aren't under consideration for malfeasance by suppliers.


Are they irrelevant?


Well, they’re TikTok users. They only have a five-minute attention span, so they’ll forget about any consequences pretty quickly.


Because they aren't TikTok users, simple as that. If the Trump admin was going to ban Reddit for being partially Chinese owned, they'd be up in arms.


Aren't we all, to a large extent?

I mean, yeah, I would be slightly annoyed to lose ${social network}, but in truth, my life would be hardly impacted.




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