[DoneWithAllThat]

It is endlessly fascinating to me that people ascribe emotions that individuals experience to organizations, companies, nation-states, etc.

As the article says ByteDance is a massive company with thousands of employees in the US alone. It’s ridiculous to think a corporation of that size operates as if it was a singular (and extremely petty) individual, especially to the detriment of its own self interests.

There’s a dozen potential motivations for pursuing this strategy and none of them boil down to being “pissed”.

[suraci]

I'd like to offer an alternative perspective: TikTok's main revenue comes from China. Succumbing to the US gov would challenge the domestic nationalism, thereby causing more losses.