In terms of a new purchaser of TikTok, there were months and months of people just slandering the app

as a horrible online destination. They harvest your data. It's addictive. It rots your brain.

And I mean, some of this was placed by Facebook's parent company meta. There was a report in the

Washington Post where internal emails got

leaked from targeted victory, which was a firm that placed op-eds that made TikTok seem just really

horrible. And so all of these big tech companies in the United States made TikTok the enemy,

the number one bad guy. Who wants to buy that app and run that app?

I think that the content recommendation algorithm, the way it was talked about in the bill,

made it unclear if the new purchaser could retain that intellectual property, especially if it

was still being used by

ByteDance, which I doubt ByteDance would part with that source code in a meaningful way.

So it would be a huge legal fight for whoever ultimately would buy the app as to what they could

actually own, how much it costed, and what does an actual divestiture look like with this bill that's written in a way

that is simultaneously broad and restrictive. And so I think it's a legal nightmare that many people

are like, this is not a worthwhile investment. It has to be someone buying it for almost ideological reasons rather than to make a chunk of

change. Yeah, did you see, I don't know anything about this person, this Kevin O'Leary, who apparently

put forward a $20 billion TikTok cash offer as of today. He is an entrepreneur from Shark Tank. It's not a show that I watch, but I guess

now that I'm looking at his photograph, he does look kind of familiar. Does that feel like a real

thing to you? Do we know anything about his politics? Is he ideologically sort of what,

conservative coded, Trump coded at all? To me, he's more coded on the conservative side of things.

I think he's more of like it's just a free market capitalist kind of guy.

But from what I understand about that deal is that he is only buying TikTok in terms of the IP of the branding itself.

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