Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "Kevin O'Leary: The worst thing is for TikTok to go dark for even one hour" video.

  1.  @HorsemanExtreme  No it is not. Everything on Tiktok can be replicated on FB, Youtube, and Twitter.
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  2. But The CCP won't allow it to be sold. Bitedance has veto power and has made it clear they will use that veto over any attempts to buy it.
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  3. They did. On November 5th of 2024.
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  4. Everyone is ALWAYS self-interested; it's called human nature. The question is, is that toward destructive self-interest or altruistic and enlightened self-interest?
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  5. @EvexMybusiness And yet India banned Tiktok back in 2020.
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  6. Yeah, but the CCP won't allow that. Bitedance has veto over any sale and they made it clear they will exercise that power.
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  7. Indeed. it is like Japan running a radio station or newspaper in the US during WW2.
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  8. The CCP won't allow a sale. People are engaging in wishful thinking.
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  9.  @ppp123asdf  Social Credit Score. The CCP wants to know who will be collaborators and who will be trouble when they take overt action.
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  10. How does O'Lreary get to be a property developer in NYC? Same logic applies.
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  11. It is his money, he can do with it what he wants. I think he is trying to pull an Elon Musk buying Twitter move.
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  12. Only, Bytedance won't sell; the CCP won't let this go through.
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  13. @ Nice apples to oranges false analogy. Tiktok is owned by a hostile foreign power (Red Chinese government), not an individual citizen. You are basically making the argument that Japan and Germany should have been allowed to own radio stations and newspapers in the US during WW2.
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  14. @ They exist at the whim of the Chinese Communist government. Don't fool yourself.
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  15.  @superphi  No joke. The only real value of Tiktok is the name (ie brand).
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  16. Calm down. First you analogy is pathetically ignorant of history. Qing imploded under the weight of its own corruption, NOT because it was isolationist. Japan was isolationist for 300 years before Commadore Perry arrived ending the period of Dutch exclusivity. And Japan ROARED back onto the world stage after that.
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  17. Why? It is a tool of the Red Chinese govenrment.
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  18. Or that they arbitrarily censor people on the right without recourse. Only leftist views are allowed to post with impunity.
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  19. Also, it is a propaganda tool of the Red Chinese government.
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  20. Yup. It would be no different than Germany or Japan running newspapers and radio stations in the US between the World Wars.
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  21. @ The SCOTUS made it clear that it is.
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  22. Titktok is the WORST when it comes to censorship. Worse than Google/Youtube and Facebook/Meta combined.
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  23. @ Apple is already banned in China, so what is your point? And before you bloviate, products that resemble Apple are permitted, but only under strong controls by the CCP.
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  24. You forget who holds the power and the position of strength. Yours is the foolish and myopic view that lacks understanding of how trade ACTUALLY works.
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  25.  @kenjues1594  India, THE LARGEST DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD, banned Tiktok, so what is your point?
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  26.  @DannyPhantomTax  Tiktok IS government controlled: RED CHINESE GOVENRMENT. Go touch grass.
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  27. India, the world's largest democracy banned Tiktok years ago, so what is your point?
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  28. @ "We can do better?" Oh, so you are going to look down on them from you high and might first world privilege? Thank you for proving that your argument is NOT based on logic but rather an emotional appeal. Incidentally, India nominally shares similar values as the US. It is the fact that we have historically been allied with their rivals (first the British Empire, then Pakistan) and adversaries is why India has kept the US at arm's length.
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  29. Nothing on Tiktok is proprietary; they plagiarized all of it. That is what Red China is known for.
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  30. How do they get past the Great Firewall of China?
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  31.  @EHlovenothate  Not really. They only allowed Trump back on the platform when it became obvious that he was going to win the 2024 election.
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  32. @ ",giving people information direct information that’s not tampered with" You realize that tiktok is the WORST platform when it comes to censorship? Stop shilling for a CCP propaganda tool.
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  33. Clout chasing is not a real job. Also, the "money" you were making was what the Red Chinese government was paying you, not what advertisers or subscribes provided.
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  34. @ Billions as claimed by Bytedance.....which means it is fabricated numbers that the Red Chines government want you to believe. The money you get from tiktok isn't from advertisers, it is from the CCP.
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  35. Yeah, the people defending it are essentially claiming that Japan or Germany had a right to own and operate radio stations and newspapers in the US between the World Wars.
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  36.  @ningzhang3282  It is a difference because the CCP controls Bytedance. They only allow things on Tiktok that advance their agenda and deplatform people who they disagree with.
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  37. @ And all of that only exists at the whim and pleasure of the Red Chinese government. Don't fool yourself, the Tiktok economy is as ephemeral as morning mist.
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  38. This. Why anyone thinks the CCP would allow a sale is baffling.
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  39. And arguably, it was laundered by the CCP. The advertisers gave it to Red China, who then decided how much they wanted to share with creators.
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  40.  @Geminiiiiiii  But you are okay with the Red Chinese government controlling Tiktok. Yeah, nice to see you are just grandstanding for clout.
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  41.  @Garth-l5s  Bytedance isn't a private individual; it is an organ of the Chinese Communist Party. That is where your argument implodes.
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