Changing TikTok Japan ownership could address security concerns, lawmaker says

A trouble maker indeed.

Perhaps, China should take control of all Japanese businesses because the lawmaker make it legal.

Do we pay these people?

Where are the servers? In USA, they are in that country and used by USA govt to spy on its citizens.

if TikTok in japan users US servers, then they are spying on japan too.

interesting to know where the servers used here are?

Don't fall for this BS... Bytedance will do something shady like sell the product to someone within their own network, thus not really changing anything and maintaining control.

TikTok's Japanese operation is not part of the sales scope currently being negotiated between ByteDance and several US firms, including Microsoft, Twitter, and Oracle.

If Japan wants to see TikTok Japan's ownership change hand, it must threaten to ban TikTok in Japan. But Japan can't threaten TikTok without triggering a massive retaliation from China.

@Brian William Miessner

Bytedance will do something shady like sell the product to someone within their own network

Trump's executive order is clear; TikTok must sell to a US firm or it will be banned.

Plaza Accord 2.0 and China is feeling the squeeze including its company's.

America counter Japan too when we got to 2nd place, ready to surpass them economically. Didn't matter we are an Ally, didn't matter we are a democracy, freedom of speech, did not try to expand or be aggressive, pacifist constitution.... Yet we still had to sign that humiliation and 3 lost decades of economic stagnation.

To expect changing ownership will change any security risk is nonsense.

It is th entire "system", the program itself that controls information and not the ownership.

Chaning ownership only changes the front-line profit take but everything else still remains under Chinese control. To begin with no Chinese will let another take its profits away.

Need to ask "who" is really behind this idea. For all we know with so many Japanese firms already "fronting" for the Chinese, the new owners will be in doubt, regardless.

Trump's executive order is clear; TikTok must sell to a US firm or it will be banned.

So if you have kids, teach them to be bullies. Thanks

"I would like to propose a framework that enables scientific verification" of the concern

Why must some people do things sensibly?