Elon Might Buy WHAT Next???

Chinese officials are “evaluating a possible solution that involves Elon Musk” taking over the Communist Chinese cultural malware platform TikTok as the time ticks down to find a new owner or begin operations in the United States.

According to the regular unknown resources who spoke with Bloomberg,” Beijing officials have already started debating potential solutions for TikTok as part of an in-depth discussion on how to operate with Donald Trump’s administration, one of which involves Musk,” but they” highly like that TikTok remain under the control of parent ByteDance.”

The ball is that TikTok and Musk-owned X’s combined resources” could boost X’s efforts to bring advertisers” and that Musk’s Artificial business, xAI,” may benefit from the huge amounts of data generated from TikTok”.

The Bloomberg record is “pure fantasy,” TikTok told Variety on Monday, according to TikTok. Yet Bloomberg acknowledged that it is still unclear whether any discussions about potential agreements between Musk, TikTok, and ByteDance have taken place.

When you combine those two things, TikTok’s American activities appear less like a real possibility and more like a trial bubble floated by Socialist Chinese in an effort to keep TikTok in America. &nbsp,

I thought to myself,” Are you kidding me about this?” after reading the news. When Musk currently has a working social media platform on which he completed a full top-to-bottom re-do, why would he want to buy one?

In addition, there is only so much of Elon Musk to go around, so we need him to stay saving free talk, reducing state waste, providing disaster relief from North Carolina to California, and working to spread humanity throughout the Inner Solar System. The solution to all problems may be “let Elon run it” as tempting as that often seems.

He’s a busy guy.

It’s a total ban to operate any Western-owned platforms in China, to be exact. As you and I are aware of it, Chinese people are confined behind the Communist Party’s Great Firewall and only permitted to see, publish, and share what they choose to share on the internet.

But back to TikTok. Behind the Great Firewall, TikTok is an “eat your veggies” platform, serving up its youthful audience a healthy diet of science, technology, math, history, life skills, patriotic themes, physical fitness, etc.

The American version… Jeebus, what a hot mess of humanity, geared algorithmically to act as social contagions. That’s the reason I’ve spent years calling TikTok” social malware” and why Chaya Raichik was able to ride her LibsOfTikTok account to fame and fortune. There is so much inappropriate content to cover up that I can’t see how one woman does it; perhaps she already has a staff.

But the point is this. I would never argue for Communist Chinese-style censorship on an American ( or Western ) social media platform. However, TikTok has a data vacuum that goes straight to Chinese servers, as well as an enemy agent of influence. Either its ownership becomes friendly ( a dubious proposition, given TikTok’s American business model ) or it gets shut down.

While I might — might — trust Musk ( or someone like him, if we could find one ) to run TikTok, I’d never ask him to. That leaves us with a viable choice.

Shut. It. Down.

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