I see this is the thread of low-effort thoughts, you're pretty good at that

It’s not that funny. There’s a pretty marked difference between some other US company having access to your phone (which the US Gov could get access to it if they really needed it) and a foreign government having that direct access.

If a bunch of politicians and security folks think TikTok is a bad idea, probably worth…

If (and I do mean if) TikTok really is that much of a Chinese government tool, the Chinese government doesn’t need the money and would possibly refuse to sell. The discord sewn among the American populace has to be worth more than whatever they would get. 

Hell TikTok itself is arguably just a replacement for Vine, which was killed because some top creators unionized. Which, in retrospect, you have to laugh at the whole situation that lead us here.

“But look at how detailed the wood on the mane is!”

everyone in the gaming media sure loves huge corporation bytedance

The fact that there’s not a single comment here that supports keeping TikTok around in its current form tells me that you all really don’t know your audience. Or care.

Multiple things can intersect and be true at once if you consider the history at play here.

If tiktok closed for other reasons, we’d have an alternative and everyone would have forgotten tiktok in about 2 weeks. I don’t wanna be the “I’ve been on the internet since the 90s” guy but... wait.... I am that guy. Anyone care about myspace, icq, webcrawler? Let it die and be replaced by something even more stupid…

I believe the topic in question is that this app is a national security risk, so I don’t see how “tik tok should exist because of the funny memes” is a relevant defense against that.

Since all of the gizmodo family editors are doing these, can someone do “top 50 white nationalist recruitment propaganda on tiktok” next? How about “top 30 illegal/cruel tiktok pranks”? “99 tiktoks that induce body dismorphia in teens and teach them unhealthy/pseudoscience ‘cures’ for their perceived inadequacies 🤫🧏”…

Yeah going to Europe often, this has always surprised me. But 6' blonde German lady cops in their 20's walking around with MP5's is kind of hot.

Exactly. With Apple products, there’s a definite sense that the company has decided there is a right way to use their products, and that it is constantly annoyed that customers refuse to comply.

Kotaku at it’s finest, finding issues where the are none.

I am a bigger WW2 buff than most and I had no idea it meant that. I feel like if you aren’t a Nazi then it doesn’t mean that.

People started doing that and now you have a bunch of lower level businesses whining and putting up signs about how they’re understaffed and “nobody wants to work anymore” even though unemployment is at historic lows.

I realize that no one at Gawker understands the difference between revenue and profit. This is evident by the fact that your properties keep going bankrupt. $7B in revenue is meaningless unless you include all of the other numbers.

The average Pizza Hut franchisee makes a whopping $92k per year. That’s after taking…

Oh Snap! This happily Latino person tips his hat to you sir.

If white people can invent ‘Latinx’ than TikTok can invent ‘Latinx food’.

I don’t understand the whole ‘The Sky Is Falling’ attitude in this article. Who cares what people on TikTok say about anything, really?