• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Assuming China doesn’t have to spend literally any other money, even though countries are constantly investing in infrastructure and security and material to assist the business.

    But also, literally not free. My point stands.

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      6 months ago

      You won’t just stop the maintenance if TikTok didn’t exist. It’s not like all China cares about is data.

      Your question was “why would China get data from TikTok when they can just buy it from Meta”. If China didn’t get the data from ByteDance, ByteDance still incurs the maintenance fee. So no, that is not the expense of getting the data.