On January 18, at about 10:30 eveningTiktok’s social platform has become dark in the United States. It remained available to American users for about fourteen hours. Then he reappeared. To date, this brief closure represents the extent of the consequences that Tiktok and its Chinese mother company, bytedance, represented in the months that Joe Biden’s signature on the law, last April, imposed this. The platform is soldAt least partially, for American stakeholders, or prohibited in the United States immediately before the opening of Donald Trump, began to reassure Tiktok and its support technology companies, that it will not impose a ban – although his first administration was the one that started to make a campaign on the application because of its impact by the Chinese government. On January 20, Trump issued an executive order to extend the deadline of Tiktok in seventy -five days; Last week, on April 4, he expanded it for seventy -five days. The second extension puts the idea that Tiktok will disappear again, and makes a kind of commercial arrangement to maintain its presence in the United States seems to be inevitable.
According to what was reported to be close to the Boytnes and the government of the United States, it was announced last week. According to Times And other outlets, it would include Oracle and Tech Investment Company American Database Company, including Andressen Horowitz and Susquehanna, which is the last of already interests in BYDEDANCE. These companies will take larger stakes in an American group of Tiktok, making their part of the Chinese ownership directly below the threshold of twenty percent required under the 2024 Law. Trump advertisement One of the acute global definitions last Wednesday, as it was launched on the liberation day, he deterred the Chinese parties from completing the deal. As of Wednesday, Trump announced a tariff of one hundred and twenty percent on the goods imported from China, measures that the Chinese government described as “bullying”.
Tiktok has become a bargaining slice in an escalating trade war. “China changed the deal due to the customs tariff,” Trump said while talking to correspondents of the Air Force on April 6. “If you give a little customs tariff, they will agree to this deal in fifteen minutes.” Tiktok was already present in a kind of forgetfulness before last week, but now her strange condition has been intensified between periods: it is alive and death, it is permitted to continue but technically illegal. Trump, who may have benefited from the attention of his fans during Election 2024You cannot let it be banned, for fear of disappointing his hopes, his young electoral circle on the Internet, and undermines his reputation in making deals. In turn, Bytedance cannot be considered as a fully surrenders to the president’s whims, and he cannot easily lose the large American user base. In order for the company to refuse to reach any agreement on the sale or investment process, it appears that it proves that Tiktok technology is invalid and prone to pressure from the Chinese government, and the congressional congressions once agreed that it was.
Over the past few decades, the largest American technology companies have been the power of globalization. Billions of people around the world have started using iPhone, Facebook and Apple, and the success of these companies appears to reflect the dominance of the United States on the world stage. American social networks played a similar role to the role of McDonald’s or Starbucks when chains spread internationally, and by the late 1990s, they symbolize the expansion of the American influence. In the book 2024 entitled “Machine and sovereigntyThe philosopher in Hong Kong Yuk Hoy described technological globalization as an era when “modern Western technology becomes a global phenomenon and the common goal of human development.” Now governments around the world are trying to bring these companies to the heel, and subject them to the goals of national policy rather than allowing their products to spread freely.
The evidence for retreating from technological globalization exceeds TIKTOK negotiations. According to Wall Street JournalIt seems that Mark Zuckerberg is encouraging Trump to use the customs tariff to pressure the European Union to back down from the enforcement of data privacy via the Internet through its digital market law, which has created regulations that hurt the dead ability to sell ads there. The idea of ”sovereign artificial intelligence” – which is the nation’s ability to produce artificial intelligence technology without foreign employment or infrastructure – was circulated by the micro -chips maker Nafidia And its adoption as a goal by various governments, which invest in local huge databases. As with military drones or satellites for spying, each country aspires to develop the models of Amnesty International that directly control it. AI TECH, from the consumer level to the top, has become an increasing national project, with products like Mistral in France and Dibsic In China it challenges hegemony Openai. In the days preceding the general artificial intelligence race, Openai in artificial intelligence seemed to be not on Facebook for social networks: one American product for everyone on Earth. Now he faces real competition.
According to HUI, the alternative to technological globalization is “technical diversity”, a system in which many similar technologies coexist, each with its priorities and design. This idea may threaten the CEOs of Silicon Valley, who see their companies as the national countries for themselves. But it is not necessarily bad for individual users, who may see an expansion of the possibilities of online communication, social media and artificial intelligence. Hoy argued that technical diversity could not be able to further digital competition but rather to live and interact with each other. The scene online recently felt in a border state, controlled by a few giant companies. Hui wrote, “The Fatening”, can provide a way “to get out of the dilemma.” This may mean that some social networks do not work in some countries, or that the American artificial intelligence model works differently from Japanese or French networks. Negotiations on Tiktok’s ban is not just a referendum on the ability of the application on a children’s addict or the exercise of the secret Chinese effect on the base of American users. Tiktok is not unique, or unique; Tiktok will remain the same as addictive and that is manipulating the service of the new stakeholders in companies. Instead, the battle around Tiktok revolves around both sides in an attempt to maintain a political grip as much digital technology. ♦
