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View: Every cloud has a silver lining. So has TikTok for Indian cloud giants

If TikTok’s US business is sold to one of the US public cloud giants , the buyer does not get to own everything. Such a buyer will merely operate the platform’s relations with its local customers in its cloud.

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Cloud architecture makes de facto franchising relatively simple. Indian local cloud giants could acquire de facto franchises of this kind with aggressive political assistance from GoI. As proposed in the Data Protection Bill, GoI will attempt to force the platform services into local operations arrangements and justify it as protection of citizen privacy.






By Mishi Choudhary & Eben MoglenThe TikTok Wars of 2020 are crucial signposts in the history of the internet.When GoI began agitating for restrictions on the video-sharing app, the context was a painful souring in India-China ties. The geopolitical signalling involved was far more important than the extent to which the app ban furthered the ‘digital sovereignty’ posture of the government.But with President Donald Trump’s onslaught against







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View: Every cloud has a silver lining. So has TikTok for Indian cloud giants View: Every cloud has a silver lining. So has TikTok for Indian cloud giants Reviewed by TechCO on 8/21/2020 Rating: 5

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