• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      Facilitated by, maybe. Contributed to, sure. The primary end goal of, no.

      ByteDance wasn’t operated for profit like the others, it was operated to do harm. The fact that they would rather shut down than sell 80% of ownership for a hefty profit is proof of that.