@jeffw to politics • 8 months agoHouse Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israelwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square6arrow-up155arrow-down12cross-posted to: technology
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•8 months ago legislation to ban TikTok How do you even enforce this
minus-square@AFaithfulNihilistlink6•8 months agoBy displaying a new power to regulate the internet that they have sworn was impossible in the past: punishing ISPs for customers’ breaking of the law.
minus-squarelurch (he/him)linkfedilink2•8 months agoban tiktok to serve US IPs and if they still do, fine them. or have providers block tiktok IPs, but then you can’t fine tiktok, which makes the government sad. of course there will be ways around, but most people won’t bother and just waste their time differently
minus-square@kautaulink5•8 months agoThat and force google and apple to remove them from the US play and app store
How do you even enforce this
By displaying a new power to regulate the internet that they have sworn was impossible in the past: punishing ISPs for customers’ breaking of the law.
ban tiktok to serve US IPs and if they still do, fine them.
or have providers block tiktok IPs, but then you can’t fine tiktok, which makes the government sad.
of course there will be ways around, but most people won’t bother and just waste their time differently
That and force google and apple to remove them from the US play and app store