• @[email protected]
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    18 months ago

    Some bills don’t have teeth. It sounds like this one does. What do you think would happen if ByteDance doesn’t comply?

    • Chaotic Entropy
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      8 months ago

      It would be ineffectually banned in the US and Bytedance would continue to rake in money worldwide from not-the-US?

      The US population represents ~4% of the world.

      • @laughterlaughter
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        58 months ago

        Yes, the U.S. population represents 4% of the world, but what about in the economic world?

      • @[email protected]
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        28 months ago

        You’re saying people in the US would keep using it if it were banned in the US but still available in the rest of the world? How? It wouldn’t be available on app stores, and the website would be blocked by American DNS servers. Most TikTok users aren’t tech savvy enough to get around bans.

        • @[email protected]
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          58 months ago

          Just removing it from the Apple App Store world crush its popularity in the US, since iPhones have much more market share here than globally.

          Some users might figure out how to view the site with a web browser, but that’s where the other types of blocks come into play.

        • @laughterlaughter
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          28 months ago

          Lol, I don’t agree with what the parent poster said, but your interpretation is way off!

          No, he’s saying that if ByteDance loses the American market, it won’t matter much (it does, in my opinion.)

          • @[email protected]
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            28 months ago

            Lol, I don’t agree with what the parent poster said, but your interpretation is way off!

            Which part? How do you see things differently?

            • @laughterlaughter
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              28 months ago

              I guess you focused on the “ineffectually” part indicating that US users would “ignore the ban.” Fair enough. But I think the comment is more about ByteDance not caring about losing the U.S. market.

              • @[email protected]
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                18 months ago

                I don’t think TikTok’s success outside of the US is relevant to the thread. It isn’t being banned because lawmakers want ByteDance to make less money.

                • @laughterlaughter
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                  18 months ago

                  Not relevant to the thread, sure. But the parent poster’s point was something along the lines of “like ByteDance will give a damn - they still have the rest of the world market, so they will happily accept the ban.”

                  But you’re right. Not exactly relevant to the thread.