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A 4th car is going to the highseas.

And Louisiana. People forget that it was first in the porn ban that doesn't even work.

Don't forget Virginia!

Bout to be CO too, not just limited to red states unfortunately.

Admittedly, it's not just for porn, but social media in general. Either way, the same reasoning applies, I'm not giving a third party company my identity just for a social media account and I'm certainly not going to do it for porn

I'm one of these Texas motherfuckers getting fucked with by this dumb shit. I am in the market for a cheap, effective VPN.

I'm thinking about trying Express VPN, but I haven't had time to do all the comparison shopping for which one is actually best. I don't need a shitload of different devices, all at once. At most, I need to maybe cover one desktop PC and two WiFi devices. But I'd be cool with just one seat.

Anyone got recommendations?

Specifically American tiktok. The tiktok they have isn't the same. Iirc It's only educational stuff, and you get a time limit.

The umbrella academy was hard carried by five. The actor really pulled off the adult stuck in a kid's body thing. The actor that played the guy with addiction issues was great too.

Five and Klaus carried the show

TikTok isn't banned in canada, or the UK, or a number of other english speaking non-US countries

Why would they VPN to the version of the app that has less English speakers?

I've got Chinese GenZ TikTok pegged as 10x more entertaining than American Boomer Facebook.

that's not how VPNs work

Internet itself is regulated by the nation state.

What's funny about this is that the fear of Chinese Authoritarianism leads Americans straight into American Authoritarianism.

It's this close to self awareness and then veers straight into hypocrisy

We are not in China, are we? The (american) government should NOT have control over what information its citizens have access to. We should not strive to be like China in this regard.

China censors what its people sees on its platforms so its people started using facebook. Then China started demanding that facebook censor itself in China (there was a major terror attack that sparked this) but Facebook refused so they banned it. Same thing happened with reddit and such.

Meanwhile, the US started censoring its major media platforms people either fled to niche libre sites like this or the shiny new addictive app from China. China doesnt care about what americans see. It'll happily let americans see Israelis document their war crimes. The US said, sell to american investors, and be censored or be banned. ByteDance chose being banned. Welcome to the great american firewall.

China bans most American based social media

they've banned all the big ones except youtube, but their version of youtube is extremely censored.

is strictly educational and can only be used certain times of the day

Nope and nope. Like normak tiktok, douyin have all sort of things, depends on what you view. You can login to it (doesn't have to), and the account is connect to your cellphone number which is connected to your national ID. I don't know if theres time limitations if you are a minor though.

I've sideloaded douyin before, it isn't strictly educational but I do believe if a child is using the device there is time limits. and also you can't sign up without a Chinese ID but it doesn't require an account. I actually did find some Americans on there who somehow found a way to sign up.

China has indeed blocked tiktok, but their version, douyin likely runs on similar systems and have similar types of contents. These two versions just don't share content and probably have different moderation and privacy policies.

I think you are confusing the tiktok block with the computer game ban, which requires excessive verifications (even biometric) to play games. And underaged children can only play games in assigned time slots with time limit:

In 2019, the country imposed a cybercurfew barring those under 18 from playing games between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m.

Recognizing that wily teenagers might try to use their parents’ devices or identities to circumvent the restrictions, the Chinese internet conglomerate Tencent said this week that it would close the loophole by deploying facial recognition technology in its video games.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/business/video-game-facial-recognition-tencent.html