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  • L Offline
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    Loki
    wrote on last edited by
    #19

    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/03/microsoft-confirms-talks-to-buy-tiktok-in-us.html

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    • JollyJ Offline
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      Jolly
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      #20

      Nice company you have there. Shame we have to ban it.

      Now, that's the art of a deal you can't refuse!

      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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        #21

        Interesting to see if they can get it done in 45 days.

        I am sure that Byte Dance has a higher expectation of what they think Tiki's Tok is worth.

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          Catseye3
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          #22

          https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_ae0cf56403b2a18518874d5f971120ef

          "After days of whiplash over the future of TikTok, President Donald Trump said he would allow an American company to acquire the short-form video app — with a catch.

          "In an unusual declaration, Trump also said any deal would have to include a "substantial amount of money" coming to the US Treasury.

          "The President's requirement that some of the money from the deal go to the US Treasury doesn't have a basis in antitrust law, according to Gene Kimmelman, a former chief counsel for the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division . . . 'This is quite unusual, this is out of the norm," Kimmelman said. "It's actually quite hard to understand what the president is actually talking about here.'"

          Welcome to the world, Gene.

          Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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          • Catseye3C Catseye3

            https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_ae0cf56403b2a18518874d5f971120ef

            "After days of whiplash over the future of TikTok, President Donald Trump said he would allow an American company to acquire the short-form video app — with a catch.

            "In an unusual declaration, Trump also said any deal would have to include a "substantial amount of money" coming to the US Treasury.

            "The President's requirement that some of the money from the deal go to the US Treasury doesn't have a basis in antitrust law, according to Gene Kimmelman, a former chief counsel for the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division . . . 'This is quite unusual, this is out of the norm," Kimmelman said. "It's actually quite hard to understand what the president is actually talking about here.'"

            Welcome to the world, Gene.

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            Klaus
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            #23

            @Catseye3 said in Tik Tok:

            "In an unusual declaration, Trump also said any deal would have to include a "substantial amount of money" coming to the US Treasury

            Lolwut?

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              Doctor Phibes
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              #24

              Conservative support for free enterprise at it's finest.

              I was only joking

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              • KlausK Klaus

                @Catseye3 said in Tik Tok:

                "In an unusual declaration, Trump also said any deal would have to include a "substantial amount of money" coming to the US Treasury

                Lolwut?

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                jon-nyc
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                #25

                @Klaus said in Tik Tok:

                @Catseye3 said in Tik Tok:

                "In an unusual declaration, Trump also said any deal would have to include a "substantial amount of money" coming to the US Treasury

                Lolwut?

                He went on to say 'because he made the deal possible'.

                If Obama said that Sean Hannity would have set himself on fire.

                Only non-witches get due process.

                • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                  #26

                  “I did say that if you buy it, whatever the price is that goes to whoever owns it, because I guess it’s China essentially … I said a very substantial portion of that price is going to have to come into the Treasury of the United States because we’re making it possible for this deal to happen,” Trump said.

                  Trump later defended his push for a cut, adding “nobody else would be thinking about but me, but that’s the way I think.”

                  Only non-witches get due process.

                  • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                  • Doctor PhibesD Online
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                    Doctor Phibes
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                    #27

                    We should be thankful he isn't expecting the money to go to him personally.

                    I was only joking

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                    • MikM Away
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                      Mik
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                      Sounds like after the fact bribery. Which the Chinese might actually respect.

                      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                      • MikM Mik

                        Sounds like after the fact bribery. Which the Chinese might actually respect.

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                        #29

                        @Mik said in Tik Tok:

                        Sounds like after the fact bribery. Which the Chinese might actually respect.

                        But Americans should not.

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