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TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I would guess that it goes off of the lowest common denominator between IP address geo-location & billing address. If either of those say US, google/apple would probably be required not to distribute it.