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With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’ (www.wired.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (6 children)

More likely people will just install/update tiktok outside of Google play and apple store.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Tiktok got banned in India some years ago and it doesn't work if you sideload, or even VPN somehow. But pretty much the next day instagram launched their reels things and people jumped ship without talking about tiktok anymore...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Rumor has it that tiktok will be unplayable with accounts linked to an American SIM card

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tiktok is going to be paradise without all the US problems in everybody else's internet. It's going to be the best social network ever

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

That... would be interesting. I wonder how they would implement that, and what else they decide is worth that restriction. Curious to see it play out

Edit: helpful info from Toms Hardware

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/what-will-happen-if-tiktok-is-banned

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (14 children)

fucking idiots

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 2 days ago (5 children)

This is the third story I've seen today that was basically "Tiktok users flee service to other chinese service app you've never heard of"

So basically the usa banned tiktok, and now there's 3 other tiktoks, all connecting the same amount of data for china, just through 3 different services instead of 1.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Sounds about right, From my understanding, they singled out TikTok instead of addressing the actual problem they claim to care about.

[Edit, another comment says its any app with 1million users. So now there's just going to be a hundred TikTok clones all under the same umbrella just different names.]

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

If they addressed the general problem it would also affect US social media platforms and they want to continue doing that when American companies do it.

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 2 days ago

Meet the new app, same as the old app.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (20 children)

The number of people in the comments celebrating censorship by our own government while also claiming China is authoritarian is insane.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (17 children)

Both can be true. I'm against banning TikTok, but I also think TikTok is absolutely terrible and nobody should use it. China is authoritarian, and this ban by the US is wrong. I say this as an American.