hypothesis on the US stance on TikTok: banning it would be probably illegal -- so politicians are trying to just cast a cloud of doubt and potential future problems for the company, and with it limit its potential -- some kind of regulation by fear
what business is going to invest ad dollars in TikTok if it could get banned in six months? what creator would bet their career in that?
ByteDance would continue on this edge for years, making it less prone to take risks acquiring other companies or launching products, or going for moonshots that could make the company trillions in the long run.
For instance, there is no way ByteDance launches some of the software Alibaba, Baidu or Tencent have been doing for two decades, from web browsers to instant messaging, to videogames or even semiconductors.
hypothesis on the US stance on TikTok: banning it would be probably illegal -- so politicians are trying to just cast a cloud of doubt and potential future problems for the company, and with it limit its potential -- some kind of regulation by fear
what business is going to invest ad dollars in TikTok if it could get banned in six months? what creator would bet their career in that?
ByteDance would continue on this edge for years, making it less prone to take risks acquiring other companies or launching products, or going for moonshots that could make the company trillions in the long run.
For instance, there is no way ByteDance launches some of the software Alibaba, Baidu or Tencent have been doing for two decades, from web browsers to instant messaging, to videogames or even semiconductors.
You can clone chatGPT but over time it becomes increasingly difficult to clone TikTok.