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TikTok will completely shut down app in US on Sunday as ban looms (nypost.com)

submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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TikTok is reportedly planning a total shutdown of the Chinese-owned video-sharing app when the law requiring a ban or sale of the app takes effect on Sunday.

The roughly 170 million US users who try to access the app will be greeted with a pop-up message directing them to a website with details about the ban, according to the Information.

Users will also be given the option of downloading their data from the app, sources familiar with the plan told the outlet.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It's like trying to stop piracy. No matter how many app the government try to ban, new ones will appear

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

There does come a point where the inconvenience slowly moves the masses to other platforms. It's not that difficult to access the full internet in China with any data-only esim being unrestricted by default and many VPNs working just fine. But it's just difficult enough to do this that the masses don't. Piracy functions the same way, if piracy were truly broad in scale then it would be taken much more seriously.