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House Committee members urged Apple and Google CEOs to prepare for compliance with a law potentially banning TikTok in the U.S. next month.

This follows a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling upholding a law requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok by Jan. 19 to address national security concerns. Without divestiture, app stores must block TikTok.

TikTok has filed an emergency injunction, citing harm to businesses and creators, while arguing the law is unconstitutional.

Trump’s stance on enforcing the ban remains unclear, amid reports of his ties to TikTok investor Jeff Yass.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

It's all that's needed. Social Media lives and dies by the network effect so as popular creators get forced off or choose to leave the platform the content consumers will also leave.

Beyond that very few users of any service or platform will expend the time and effort trying to install an app from alternate sources so as devices die or get reset those users will disappear. As an example back in 2013 Flappy Bird was stupid popular but once you couldn't install it directly from a regular app store anymore it died off.

TT is 12 months from death in the United States. I hope Bluesky is ready for them.

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

I dunno, there's a reason they are using tiktok over youtube.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I donno, one would argue the FOMO would cause even more americans to flock to tictok once it's "banned". The primary demographic is younger people, who are smart enough to find a way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Tiktok demographic is less technologically capable than their parents.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah you might be right. I'm getting pretty out of touch with the younger generations these days.