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Discussion on: Tiktok is getting banned in the US. Will this affect US jobs?

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leob

Huh? Tik Tok is entertainment for kiddies or am I seeing that wrong? :-)

Not saying that it's useless, many youths love it and do fun stuff with it (maybe it even has a positive impact on their mental health or wellbeing, especially in these stressful COVID times, so that would strongly speak against prohibiting it), but impact on business would be close to zero I'd think.

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TikTok employs lots of americans.

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Wow, I wasn't aware of that, I thought it was wholly Chinese really ... moderators?

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10K jobs that's nothing to scoff at ... man, I had no idea that some company publishing a silly video app would employ that many people!

"sales, content moderation, engineering and customer support"

Right, I think content moderation is a big thing for Tik Tok.

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10k jobs are the jobs tiktok wants to ADD, meaning the total number of jobs created by tiktok is even bigger than 10k

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leob • Edited

Incredible ... yes we're talking serious business then.