 The U.S. and TikTok's parent company ByteDance are back to negotiating over how it will operate in the U.S., create a separate U.S. subsidiary that would be managed by a three-person board selected by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. The objections to Project Texas often are that it gives the U.S. government too much control over TikTok. All U.S. data has been moved on to Oracle servers, so U.S. data is no longer in Singapore. It feels like we're maybe past the knee-jerk band TikTok era. The interesting thing about Project Texas is that it almost feels like we're getting a U.S. run, U.S.-sponsored social network out of this that's owned by China and run by, presumably, whoever's in charge of the executive branch of the United States government at any given moment, which is... I'm uncomfortable with that for an entirely different set of reasons than I ever was uncomfortable about TikTok being owned by ByteDance.