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.
nice contrast with expanding surveillance like two days before. being another country without your own social media is basically saying “i like that usa spies on me, they should do more of it”
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
Tik Tok should just refuse to sell and make their landing page a full screen banner saying “this is the top priority of American politicians right now, when was the last time you had to choose between paying rent and buying groceries, election day is November 5th.”
Yea he is losing the election for sure
At this point, I feel like that’s just part of the game for politicians. Like how much can they get away with before facing consequences.
Oh, also, Fucking Biden is a sacrificial lamb for all his fucking handlers. They’re not gonna face any consequences long term for him losing, they’ll just move on to a new job with all these horrible policies on their CV. That’s another way him and Trump aren’t so different, it’s just a difference in the ideology of monsters they’re more likely to acquiesce towards.
Joe Biden, not really wanting to win re-election but also wanting to be able to blame ‘naive young people’ for his failure:
The 2028 election will be decided based on who’s going to be more aggressive in making it illegal to be younger than 40.
They’re out of their minds.
The political cost of banning tiktok is so fucking high. The US relies on its “FREEEEEE SPEEEEECH” propaganda so much but every single member of genz is going to consider that complete and total bullshit if they lose access to the app in a move that has obviously been motivated by Palestine.
We will be laughing about this blunder in years to come as a very significant mistake. The political cost of undermining one of the most important cornerstones of american propaganda is much higher than allowing tiktok to exist. They’re treating this the same as the UK banning CGTN or RT but those were easy to do because only a few thousand people watched them to begin with, they had no political cost. The cost of this is one of the flagstones of the american lie with an entire generation.
What’s more interesting to me is USA keeps whining about how China’s changing the world order. Yet, their actions show that they approve of it and are running full steam in trying to implement China’s new world order. Let’s list what USA complains about:
- China’s trade practices are unfair and they subsidize their companies - USA is now desperately trying to out subsidize China on chips.
- China censors foreign media and has no freedom of speech - USA is banning Tik Tok because it promotes China’s speech
- China is committing genocide - USA helps Israel commit genocide
I could go on. But what it all means to me is USA has totally given up on it’s beliefs on human rights, freedom of speech and free trade. Instead it’s trying to poorly imitate China. This is the conflict China wanted and USA is giving it to them on a golden platter.
But what it all means to me is USA has totally given up on it’s beliefs on human rights, freedom of speech and free trade.
It never believed in those to begin with, it’s always been a cynical political propaganda tool and nothing more.
Instead it’s trying to poorly imitate China. This is the conflict China wanted and USA is giving it to them on a golden platter.
China wants conflict? You could say that this whole cold war started when Obama banned China from the ISS, citing concerns of them “sTeaLing TeChnOloGy”, yet they had no concerns over Russia doing the same?
I think you’re misunderstanding me. Conflict is not war, two companies selling a similar product are in conflict. I don’t think Google is sending a hit squad to Microsoft because of their competition.
China clearly wants to compete with USA on multiple levels, they’ve been doing this since the country was reformed under communism. It’s not like they even pretended anything otherwise. From Mao to Deng to Xi China has always said it will develop in it’s own way and will confront any one who tries to disturb the peace of the country. Sure enough, from the moment China was reformed, USA has constantly disturbed the peace of the country. Thus, China has always known they were in conflict with the US. It’s only now they’re strong enough to make it clear they want to be left alone and will use their military if it comes to it.
So yes, even though it’s defensive (and I’m not saying countries shouldn’t be defensive) China has wanted this conflict. They have every right to this conflict as it’s literally the sovereignty of their nation, but it’s still wanting conflict. One that they have a clear path to victory.
