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ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Dragxito to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm just baffled, why am I not free to install whatever crap I want onto my phone?

[–] mechoman444 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Let me ask you a question. How do you think they're going to "ban" TikTok? Remove it from the app store on Google and apple? You'll still be able to download the app and use it as long as you have the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

No need to guess, it's all outlined in the bill:

ByteDance has 270 days (+90 days at president discretion) to divest of TikTok and sell to an entity not affiliated with an "adversary country" (China, Iran, Russia, N. Korea).
If they don't sell, hosting providers of TikTok application (servers, storage, app store, etc) will be fined up to $500 times the number of users in the US if they continue to host the application

So basically, the law will impose a fine of US hosting providers of the app. If the app moves all services overseas to foreign entities, then the app presumably will continue to work even if banned if already installed (plus the website if hosted overseas).

ISPs and search engines are explicitly exempt from the bill so there is no mechanism to ban connections to TilTok servers or links to TikTok.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Probably just need to use a VPN to access it at most, which Ironically might actually make the content contributions from Americans better since it's only gonna be people willing to invest in a VPN who are on it lol

[–] mechoman444 1 points 7 months ago

You have a point!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

True, I can go get it still from the aurora store.