Wow, you guys have so much in common: Oracle hotly tipped to power TikTok’s operations as Microsoft deal rejected Oracle is reportedly set to provide technology to TikTok – the astronomically popular China-based social network – in what could be the century’s strangest corporate match-up. This comes after TikTok was ordered by President Donald Trump to sell or spin off its American operations, or be banned from the Land of the Free over …
I can only assume that TikTok hopes that Oracle being completely absent from the social media sector, it will give them a free rein to keep doing whatever it is that they want to do. Oracle, on the other side, I have no idea why they would want that; but I'm pretty sure TikTok won't like it when they know.
>Oracle, on the other side, I have no idea why they would want that; but I'm pretty sure TikTok won't like it when they know.
Conspiracy says it's a back-hander from Trump for Larry's support and a commiseration for the Generals (Traitors/Losers) not giving him the DoD contract.
Cock-up says he is doing it because they have to do something not to become totally irrelvant
And I don't see that changing any time soon.
As I've already said, that Microsoft adds yet another thingy on it's already bursting patchwork of a software quilt is no surprise, but Oracle is only Oracle and only does Oracle.
I am glad to see that the author of the article is in the same frame of mind.
Oracle and TikTok go together like tank tops and suede shoes. It doesn't match.
According to other sources Oracle will merely be a "technology provider" (read: storage provider) for TikTok and nothing else. I'm pretty sure the Chinese will still be able to access U.S. customer data this way, but it will take some time to find out.
Anyway, I don't think Trump will buy this. He'll tell them to either sell it completely or shut it down, which IMHO is the best option.
No Trump would only insist on that if his "national security" argument was legit. Since it is all about him being a whiny crybaby when Tiktok was used by teens to troll him on his Oklahoma event and make him look bad with its tiny audience, he won't have any objections to this. He's giving one of his biggest campaign donaters some free business, probably gets a kickback in terms of more donations, and thus will claim this solves all the imaginary problems with Tiktok that never existed in the first place.
"and thus will claim this solves all the imaginary problems"
This. He'll claim to have 'won'...and that's it, that's all he needs to do to excite his supporters, just to say that he 'did the thing', even if he did the exact opposite.
He'd claim he was responsible for the sun coming up if he thought it would make him a buck.
...To do this, we would have made significant changes to ensure the service met the highest standards for security, privacy, online safety, and combatting disinformation,
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For one brief moment I took that as them reforming their own abysmally low standards rather than those of the putative Microsoft-TikTok.
So ByteDance is not selling TikTok to Oracle, but Oracle will be the guardian and owner of all of TikTok's U.S. user data. That is supposedly meant as a way to get around Trump's executive order, at least long enough for Joe Biden to (maybe) win the election and bring a more China-friendly administration into power.
The China Global Television Network (CGTN) announced today that TikTok would not be sold to Oracle (or Microsoft).
Prior to this the Chinese Commerce Ministry announced changes to their export rules which could allow them to ban the licensing or sale of TikTok's IP (which could have been valuable for Oracle). Without this it's sale would, essentially, just be a customer list.
Get out the popcorn.
"Credible evidence", eh? Would be helpful if same was published, so us mere mortals can actually see what our lords and masters are protecting us against. What?.........It's all political? Shirley you must be wrong, with such a bright orange intellect and "stable genius" in charge. What could possibly go wrong? Oh......wait.....
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