Saw people say TikTok parent company Bytedance’s relationship w. the Chinese govt isn’t good. Here’s what I wrote last Nov. about the relationship. A news platform bursting onto the scene in 2012 when China intensified internet control and became huge without the govt nod? No way pic.twitter.com/s4U9CWUFHT

— Li Yuan (@LiYuan6) August 5, 2020

$IZEA if i did not mention this. https://t.co/gdWhXuMaVX pic.twitter.com/SqIckfdmNi

— JJ (@TheOnlyRampart1) August 5, 2020

$MSFT | Microsoft Could Buy TikTok For As Much As $30 Bln - CNBChttps://t.co/LgN9O4nJyU

— LiveSquawk (@LiveSquawk) August 5, 2020

マイクロソフトのTikTok買収金額が最大300億ドルらしい。それならソフバンからARMを300億ドルで買った方が良くないか？ https://t.co/R6B9zRbHiH

— ハル☀️@SPYD6,001株?? (@haru_tachibana8) August 5, 2020

Microsoft could buy TikTok for as much as $30 billion https://t.co/kCeRyiPxXu

— CNBC Tech (@CNBCtech) August 5, 2020

MicrosoftのTikTokの買収。
100億ドル〜300億ドルなので余裕で買える額だよね。

The valuation of the deal could be as high as $30 billion, or as low as $10 billion, Faber reportedhttps://t.co/gbxdL2ttI2

— ふう＠投資家＆エンジニア (@U1_AOTAN) August 5, 2020

MicrosoftによるTikTok買収額は最低100億ドル、最高300億ドルの可能性。交渉期限は9月15日 - CNBC https://t.co/NzE3LVPC77

— 全力米国株 (@komcdspxl) August 5, 2020

The TikTok deal could be worth up to $30 billion, @davidfaber reports https://t.co/6A2SJTsnHt

— Meg Graham (@megancgraham) August 5, 2020

Chinese tech companies like TikTok searching for a way to avoid a belligerent U.S. may want to "to sell foreign rights" once they are onto a global hit. https://t.co/mzL18ZJJKl

— Nikkei Asian Review (@NAR) August 5, 2020

The lesson for Chinese software developers at #TikTok: Forget about America. #USChinahttps://t.co/5IGsQ38KPr

— Nikkei Asian Review (@NAR) August 5, 2020

Very suspicious TikTok Steals Kids' Data And Sends It To China https://t.co/372d0mEqIB

— Michael Ron Bowling (@mrbcyber) August 5, 2020

That's exactly what @Billgates is doing and other tech companies so what's the big deal. Many view Bill Gates as the number one enemy of humanity with his deadly vaccination program in Africa and around the world. https://t.co/fzoNABYwA2

— joejoe (@joejoe80495073) August 5, 2020

Expect more of these. A lot more of these. https://t.co/H6bZauzwsY

— Dan Harris (@danharris) August 4, 2020

TikTok、アメリカで集団訴訟https://t.co/DMZvYfktRS

— IvermectinSciatica (@IvermectinS) August 5, 2020

Still think TikTok isn’t a security/CI risk? Well, you’d be mistaken.

Class-Action Lawsuit Claims TikTok Steals Kids' Data And Sends It To China : NPR https://t.co/ie9zpMZbxU

— Gail Helt (@ghelt) August 4, 2020

A class action lawsuit against TikTok claims the video-sharing app collects information about users' facial characteristics, locations and contacts, and secretly sends that data to to China. https://t.co/XeRgYMk8rF

— NPR (@NPR) August 4, 2020

中国には、2017年に制定された「国家情報法」があり、これを元に、中国企業と国民は、国の諜報活動を支援する義務があると理解されています。情報漏洩が立証される可能性はあるでしょう。

TikTok の買収は政治色が強いので、 交渉難航が予想されます。#TikTokhttps://t.co/kfXDS2poit

— SiriusB (@SiriusBlue9) August 5, 2020