President Joe Biden has just signed the so-called TikTok ban into law, meaning that the popular social media app’s parent company must now sell the app or face a ban across the US,
The controversial ban of the app was passed by Congress this week, sending the measure to Mr Biden’s desk, who signed the legislation into law on Wednesday.
Despite fears that the Chinese-owned app will suddenly vanish from users’ phones, that is far from the reality of what will likely happen.
When does the ban go into effect?
At the earliest, it would probably take a year before TikTok would be banned.
Under the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, has nine months to sell the social media app, tacking on an additional three more if a sale is under way.
But if this doesn’t happen, TikTok will be banned from US app stores.
In reality, the app would be no longer accessible in the app stores in the US, meaning it would become more difficult to download the app or receive updates.
TikTok users could probably circumvent the app’s removal from US app stores and access the app through other means, like by using a virtual private network (VPN) or using a foreign SIM card.
“The TikTok bill relies heavily on the control that Apple and Google maintain over their smartphone platforms because the bill’s primary mechanism is to direct Apple and Google to stop allowing the TikTok app on their respective app stores,” Dean Ball, a research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, told The Associated Press.
Good. I don’t want CHINA spying on me, I want an honest god fearing american company spying on me instead.
I remember making this joke and we got some lemmy dipshit in here all like ‘yes I don’t want foreign countries spying on me’
Like what is China gonna do if they learn about whatever weird/illegal things you do?
Versus the country you actually live in learning about the weird/illegal things you do?
Literally seen a lot of takes of “I’d rather America decode the algorithm than China use it for propoganda”
puts on They Live glasses
“I’d rather be lied to by america than hear the truth from a foreign goverent”
Xi seeing my feet pics
Biden seeing my feet pics and sending the cops to kill me
