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    It’s already a propaganda mill.

    You mean the propaganda mill is being bought for another group’s propaganda machine.

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    Musk (formerly richest man in the world) bought Twitter

    Ellison (current richest man in the world) buys TikTok.

    Both of these fascists see the value of controlling social media.

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      And unlike Musk who at least had a period of “liberal darling because he shut his fucking mouth and probably had a pr team” Ellison has always been widely characterized as an abusive, controlling, tantrum throwing piece of shit

      Love rewarding the worst of humanity

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    What people don’t seem to get is that these platforms don’t have any secret sauce. Tiktok could be cloned by a team of students in a few weeks.

    The platform isn’t actually valuable. It’s the user base.

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      Hosting video is hard. You’d need a large team of sysadmins, and they would make a lot of mistakes before it was stable.

      The platform is valuable. But, yes, everyone knows the most valuable asset is the userbase.

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    i cant think of many tech companies with a worse reputation than larry ellison’s oracle. this is not goi g to end well.

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    I can’t wait for 100% of all media to be Reich wing bullshit and hear them all still decry the MSM “liberal media” …

    All media will be right wingers and they’ll still act like they’re practically non existent among a sea of “leftist media.”

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      Sure a Chinese one now it is an American one. And I think the American one well be worse.