Can we nypost please?
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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What exactly does that mean? I dont use tiktok, but I imagine it will still work if I already have it installed? Or is this a geoip restriction that doesn't affect Tor users? Or is it just not in the app stores?
Kind of funny that this kicks in the day before an inauguration.
Not funny, a deliberate decision by the legislature in order to safeguard it from whoever was going to win the election (since it was set before the election).
Conveniently just in time for Trump to blame it on the Democrats even though he started the process during his previous term.
It passed with bipartisan support
Are American iPhone users going to rediscover web browsing? https://www.tiktok.com/explore
Are American Android users going to discover sideloading? https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-use-tiktok-if-its-banned-in-the-us
A "complete shutdown" as the article describes it makes it sound like neither of those two things will help.
Very Possibly No workaround
VPN
Clever
Viral Film Displayer
There goes my plan to sell jailbroken iPhones to zoomers.
Could you not access with a VPN?
Access what? There is nothing to access.
Maybe I should get on tiktok. A social media app with Americans sounds wonderful
without*?
Also I think this only affects one country in America?
Yes, my bad. Without.
Users will also be given the option of downloading their data from the app, sources familiar with the plan told the outlet.
That’s nice of them. I bet Facebook and Twitter wouldn’t do that.
Pretty sure they're both required to do that by law. I've downloaded all my Facebook data a few times
True, but I doubt they’d put the effort into making it easy for someone to download it in the message.
I don't know about twitter, but its very easy to download all of your data from Facebook. I did it yesterday in preparation for closing my account. Account->Settings&Privacy->Your Information->Download Your Information.
That is a bit harder than “click here to download” on the front page.
"They" say they are banning it over national security concerns I think it's deeper then that. They can't have a socialist like platform having an audience. Which in my opinion is why they wanted to force a sell or just ban Tiktok.
I don't think, that they will go after Rednote if it doesn't gain popularity the way that Tiktok did.
Socialist? Lol wut
socialist like platform having an audience. Which in my opinion is why they wanted to force a sell or just ban Tiktok.
This logic doesn't follow. What does forcing a sale have to do with being "socialist like" ? TikTok has been diluted into a sales platform anyway.
If they sell the platform to an American company, it wouldn't be Chinese owned. and CHina is (currently) a socialist leaning country, once sold to an American company, it's gonna be more capitalist focused then it already was. idk why people miss that.
ByteDance is a privately-held global company, roughly 60 percent owned by global institutional investors (such as Blackrock, General Atlantic, and Susquehanna International Group), 20 percent owned by the company's founders, and 20 percent owned by its employees—including over 7,000 U.S.-based employees.
I'l try to break it down since some people seem to not understand what i'm actually trying to tell them in some of the replies I made to others replies.
Tiktok is a Chinese owned company. It's not owned by a u.s based entity, person in the same way Facebook is. China, will gladly allow any pro communist or socialist content flow. The u.s government does not want that. If it's owned by an American entity, they probably won't want that type of content to flow.