Bytedance is really aggressively separating their operations on either side of the wall.
— Elliott Zaagman (@ElliottZaagman) June 7, 2020
Organizationally, they’re the most interesting case in tech at the moment. Setting precedents all over the place. https://t.co/ZqXtRSLNiO
Multiple internal sources confirmed to PingWest that employees who are currently in China, working on apps and services for the home market, are now largely stripped of access to "sensitive data" of ByteDance's slew of overseas products, including but not limited to TikTok.
— cd/dc:// (@LichtSpektrum) June 7, 2020
It is extremely rare for multi-national internet companies to region-lock internal code bases and data against their own engineers from one specific country market.
— cd/dc:// (@LichtSpektrum) June 7, 2020
Last time somebody did it was 10 yrs ago, at Google China.
Read more: https://t.co/xPCeT639d8
OK, here it comes. (thread)
— cd/dc:// (@LichtSpektrum) June 7, 2020
Exclusive: ByteDance cuts domestic engineers' data access to TikTok and other overseas productshttps://t.co/xPCeT639d8
It is extremely rare for multi-national internet companies to region-lock internal code bases and data against their own engineers from one specific country market.
— cd/dc:// (@LichtSpektrum) June 7, 2020
Last time somebody did it was 10 yrs ago, at Google China.
Read more: https://t.co/xPCeT639d8
#ByteDance, the holding group of #TikTok, is pioneering a data management strategy in our increasingly clear a 2-Track system in the global tech industry. https://t.co/54fBzAGYE5
— Jen Zhu (@jenzhuscott) June 7, 2020