[scottshamus]

This almost happened before when Trump issued an executive order for Bytedance to divest TikTok. Most of the media outlets reported that Bytedance was actively courting U.S. corporations to buy Tiktok. I'm sure there was a lot more going on behind the scenes but I don't think the automatic reaction would be to shutter TikTok.

[kelipso]

Yeah I remember reading about Bytedance willing to sell US TikTok and about how US TikTok is a relatively independent entity etc. So definitely not unthinkable but geopolitics have changed considerably since then.