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Is Oracle Closer to Running TikTok? (politico.com) 20

Posted by EditorDavid from the ticking-clock dept.
America's Vice President "expressed confidence Friday that a deal to sell TikTok and keep the social media app running in the U.S. would largely be in place by an April deadline," reports NBC News. (Specifically the Vice President said "There will almost certainly be a high-level agreement that I think satisfies our national security concerns, allows there to be a distinct American TikTok enterprise.")

The article adds that TikTok owner ByteDance "has not publicly confirmed negotiations with any potential U.S. buyer, nor has it confirmed its willingness to sell TikTok to a U.S. bidder." But ByteDance "favors" a deal with Oracle, according to an X.com post on Thursday from tech-publication The Information.

And today Politico adds that Oracle "is accelerating talks with the White House on a deal to run TikTok, though significant concerns remain about what role the app's Chinese founders will play in its ongoing U.S. operation, according to three people familiar with the discussions." [Oracle's discussions are happening] amid ongoing warnings from congressional Republicans and other China hawks that any new ownership deal — if it keeps TikTok's underlying technology in Chinese hands — could be only a surface-level fix to the security concerns that led to last year's sweeping bipartisan ban of the app. Key lawmakers, including concerned Republicans, are bringing in Oracle this week to discuss the possible deal and rising national security concerns, according to four people familiar with the meetings. One of the three people familiar with the discussions with Oracle said the deal would essentially require the U.S. government to depend on Oracle to oversee the data of American users and ensure the Chinese government doesn't have a backdoor to it — a promise the person warned would be impossible to keep.

"If the Oracle deal moves forward, you still have this [algorithm] controlled by the Chinese...."

The data security company HaystackID, which serves as independent security inspectors for TikTok U.S., said in February that it has found no indications of internal or external malicious activity — nor has it identified any protected U.S. user data that has been shared with China.

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  • Weirder things were done by Oracle.
    They bought Sun Microsystems, for example.

  • Betteridge says "no". (Score:3)

    by SeaFox ( 739806 ) on Sunday March 16, 2025 @04:14PM (#65238527)

    Have there been any official statements from the involved parties about any sale? Last I heard Tiktok has indicated they would not be selling, and the only people who claim that is going to happen are connected to the Trump administration.

    More of this weird idea from the Orange One that he can force someone to sell something he wants (and no, Trumptards, a ban in the U.S. does not mean they have to sell).

  • Force sale based "national security" (lol) to another MAGA aligned right-wing billionare to add to the rest of their MAGA aligned billionare owned media empire.

  • Oracle was created by the CIA... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by PubJeezy ( 10299395 ) on Sunday March 16, 2025 @04:19PM (#65238537)
    Oracle was literally created by the CIA. [source: https://gizmodo.com/larry-elli... [gizmodo.com] ]

    This is gross. If Tik Tok is dangerous, it shouldn't exist. If it isn't dangerous then the government shouldn't be taking it over.

    • This is misleading.

      "And that the CIA was Oracle’s first customer." (almost 50 years ago, I might add) is not the same as "Oracle was literally created by the CIA"

      Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying they're not cosy with each other, but by misrepresenting reality you are making the point weaker, not stronger.

  • Of course Oracle should not own it (and should instead disappear), but Tiktok started censoring Palestinian activists, the actual target of the TIktok ban, as soon as the ban was reversed.
  • I'd rather have China running it than Larry Ellison.
  • Trump has been doing everything he can to get Oracle to own TikTok. At one point, Microsoft was ready to buy TikTok but Trump kept pumping up the TikTok sale and all of a sudden there seemed to be a bidding war. Next, it was Walmart that was going to buy it, but with some weird precondition that they'd use Oracle technologies to host the data. Now, rumors are that Oracle wants to buy it outright.

    This is interesting because the original reason Trump hated TikTok is because it's the platform people used
  • And there are several dangerous wildfires going on. But you wouldn't know about it with the way our media talks about it. That's because the current administration doesn't want to spend the money to help the people in the disaster zones, that money's earmarked for tax breaks for the 0.1%.

    Last year a new phrase entered the American lexicon, sane washing. It refers to how every time the Republican candidate did something balls to walls insane The news media collectively got together and talked about how i
  • It is younger generations who have made Tiktok popular, and changing internet hangouts is no big deal to them. If you fuck with Tiktok to the point they notice, they will just go and make somewhere else the new popular thing and leave Tiktok to old people like Facebook and Twitter et al.
    • It didn't matter anyways TikTok was probably already a few years away from becoming uncool even without govt intervention. Soon something else will replace it and it will be like AOL and Myspace. Probably the only way Facebook has kept itself somewhat relevant is their sheer size.

      • The size of TikTok is similar to the size of Facebook.

        You have to stop looking at internet things from your American perspective, why you think TikTok comes from china? Oh, because there is a China on the other side of the planet. So simple.
        And China is surrounded by Asian countries. I only know one single person that is not on TikTok ... she is to busy as admin on a few Facebook pages.

        Also it is hard to imagine that someone will make a better TikTok, and people migrate there. A platform needs to be markete

  • You spelled RUINING wrong.

  • Let them run it into the ground like anything else they've gotten their hands on.

  • On its own Oracle is a PIECE OF SHIT and its products lie way below even open source proucts like Maria, MySQL, etc. Oracle's only claim to faim is fist to market and strong legal binding contracts for support, and that support desk open source doesn't YET have. Its Yet Another Billiionaire Owner is a douchebag.

    Why should Oracle have "the in" to "getting TikTok"? Because douchebags are friends so OrangeIdiot and OracleIsiot are buddies. Not saililng buddies because the one has too high a center of gravi

  • Hello massive write-off, say goodbye to your beloved TikTok.

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