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Biden has signed a TikTok ban into law. Here’s what this really means (www.independent.co.uk)

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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.

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[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 34 points 6 months ago

I wish we banned Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan and funded Tiktok creators, am I right? comedian

[-] DyingOfDeBordom@hexbear.net 33 points 6 months ago

the app would be no longer accessible in the app stores in the US

lmao you can literally just download .apk files for shit

[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 32 points 6 months ago

lol. lmao even.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 28 points 6 months ago

I’m actually surprised the ban isn’t harsher.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 6 months ago

I wonder if it is because they can try to walk it back with a "it's not that bad guys, see?" or if it is just boomer incompetence not knowing how to actually ban a social media app properly.

[-] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago

Putting it with Flappy Bird in the Undeletable App Preserve

[-] callTheQuestion@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What the fuck is going on with the construction of this sign?

Instead of finding a single piece of cardboard the correct size this person looks to have painstakingly attached together about 20 tiny pieces of cardboard, wood and other materials. They didn't even manage to find blank pieces for their sign, there is prior writing on them. Then painted it all with some translucent kind of paint. Where do you even get paint like that?

[-] Staines@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago

I think over the next decade, more countries will move to create their own Great Firewall type architecture to reduce foreign influence and ensure trade protectionism.

[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago

CPC please take my data spirit-bomb

[-] buh@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

❎
  ❎     A winner.
    ❎

liberalism

[-] dkr567@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"But still no healthcare for you plebian Americans" - Washington DC ghouls.

[-] autism_2@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

innocence please-save-me

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 6 months ago

This remind me of the old Parenti classic "Democracy for the few", particularly the chapter about indolency and inertia of the government, which disappear immediately when the bourgeois dictatorship is even slightly inconvenienced.

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