Biden has signed a TikTok ban into law. Here’s what this really means
Biden has signed a TikTok ban into law. Here’s what this really means
India’s ban could serve as precedent for the US, after President Joe Biden signed the so-called TikTok ban into law
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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well, this is what it took for me to finally install TikTok on my phone
Honestly after years of scoffing at Tik Tok I've kinda become addicted to it the last few weeks, there's just SO MANY anti-cop Tik Toks
yeah what we discovered from all the probes into tiktok was that tiktok wasnt promoting palestinian content it was legitimately that organically popular and that they had to go out of their way to promote israeli content otherwise it would naturally be drowned out completely
and also there is a pretty big contingent of anarchist and marxist tiktokers and they are pretty popular that they start popping up on the average persons fyp and tiktok doesnt suppress them like other platforms
also we get cool news that literally does not get reported at all. like did you know last week a retired general in the us navy was gunned down by seattle police for trying to convince a single mother to watch him SA her 2 preteen girls? been a week. google it. only results you get is a journalist and photographer who is talking about it on tiktok because he was there after the fact and took the photos and has been following up on it. wonder why his name is never mentioned hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
oh looks like today they finally updated some of the articles with his name. unfun fact, the guy oversaw the medical at guantanamo bay rest in piss fuckwad
This has the obvious implication of every other social media provider intentionally suppressing Palestinian content and promoting Israeli content. And yes, we knew that already, but they've tacitly admitted it to normal people now by going after TikTok.
tiktok doesnt suppress them like other platforms
They do the moment they start speaking out against US imperial interests against the typical main targets. Anything less than that though is fine
this hasnt been my experience
welcome to the fucking brain drain
that point when youve been scrolling for like an hour and the for you page gets WEIRD it really feels like the internet of wold when people would create geocities webpages about how the argentinian government was secretely planning to blow up the moon
The first time I opened TikTok about 30 seconds in immediately googled "TikTok how to disable autoplay"
Needless to say I did not last long on that app.
Autoplay is easily the antifeature I hate the most.
Add rathbonemakesmusic and Pokepreet1 to your follows and you'll start getting all the leftist stuff pretty quickly.
Rathbone's been kinda shitty lately. I'm a big fan of Saint, he's a perfect bridge between anarchist and tankie.
Massively sectarian for sure. But the goal here is less to do with rathbone and more to do with setting tiktok's algorithm in the direction of the lefty content.
That's a good point! TikTok's algorithm adjusts itself extremely fast, so it only takes a few interactions with leftist creators to dial it in.