Why doesn't a left-wing billionaire buy Tik-Tok?

[Wanderlust988]

There's plenty of them around. Make China/ByteDance an offer they can't refuse. Then we start our own misinformation campaigns in 2028. This is really a solution to reaching young people next time around.

[Autumn]

1. They like their money?

[Wanderlust988]

5. And they vote

[Gore1FL]

3. It's not for sale? nt

[usonian]

4. Off the top of my head, I know only two, and they aren't buying all of, nor any of, Twitter, TikTok, Meta, and Fox News.

IIRC, Larry Ellison was cleared to buy TikTok U.S. operations but it didn't happen, and he's about as nice a person as Elon.

Michael Bloomberg and Mark Cuban probably aren't interested in any of the above, and all of those above have to want to sell.

Probably don't want to.

Bezos, nazi scum, could use any of them to sell his crap.

Nuttin happenin. yet.

[DeepWinter]

6. They would

Have to make Musk an offer so ridiculously sweet he couldn't resist it. I don't think anyone has throw away money like that.

He never bought it as an investment. He bought it as a power play and to stop censorship of speech he didn't like. He's always been willing to take a loss on that as part of that power play and he's perfectly fine with it. I don't think anyone can offer a price with that mindset. He has FU money like few have.

[BannonsLiver]

7. Musk doesn't own TikTok

He owns Twitter, which is now called X

[Bettie]

8. Billionaires are more like each other

than they are like us.

Keeping their money is the most important thing to them.

[LudwigPastorius]

9. No single person has that kind of money.

Tik-Tok has been estimated as valued at $300 billion.

[The Wandering Harper]

10. left-wing billionaire is an

oxymoron

[Polybius]

11. Mark Cuban?

George Soros?

[soandso]

13. Perhaps

but far more billionaires supported Harris than Trump. Someone posted a list here and it was easily 3-1 or more.

[Amishman]

12. I doubt ByteDance + China would sell

Tiktok is believed to have backdoors that allow the administrators, and presumably the Chinese government, broad access to user data. Aggregated, that is a powerful tool that they won't relinquish.