• Ajen@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    What are you celebrating, exactly? TikTok isn’t going away, it’s just going to be sold to American investors.

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      6 months ago

      At the very least they will have to split tiktok since I doubt the CCP will let them sell the whole thing, nor will they want to.

      Best case scenario they pull out of the US entirely and then maybe some other western countries also ban it.

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        6 months ago

        Some bills don’t have teeth. It sounds like this one does. What do you think would happen if ByteDance doesn’t comply?

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          6 months ago

          It would be ineffectually banned in the US and Bytedance would continue to rake in money worldwide from not-the-US?

          The US population represents ~4% of the world.

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            6 months ago

            You’re saying people in the US would keep using it if it were banned in the US but still available in the rest of the world? How? It wouldn’t be available on app stores, and the website would be blocked by American DNS servers. Most TikTok users aren’t tech savvy enough to get around bans.

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              Just removing it from the Apple App Store world crush its popularity in the US, since iPhones have much more market share here than globally.

              Some users might figure out how to view the site with a web browser, but that’s where the other types of blocks come into play.

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              6 months ago

              Lol, I don’t agree with what the parent poster said, but your interpretation is way off!

              No, he’s saying that if ByteDance loses the American market, it won’t matter much (it does, in my opinion.)

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                6 months ago

                Lol, I don’t agree with what the parent poster said, but your interpretation is way off!

                Which part? How do you see things differently?

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                  6 months ago

                  I guess you focused on the “ineffectually” part indicating that US users would “ignore the ban.” Fair enough. But I think the comment is more about ByteDance not caring about losing the U.S. market.

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                    6 months ago

                    I don’t think TikTok’s success outside of the US is relevant to the thread. It isn’t being banned because lawmakers want ByteDance to make less money.