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.
They're out of their minds.
The political cost of banning tiktok is so fucking high. The US relies on its "FREEEEEE SPEEEEECH" propaganda so much but every single member of genz is going to consider that complete and total bullshit if they lose access to the app in a move that has obviously been motivated by Palestine.
We will be laughing about this blunder in years to come as a very significant mistake. The political cost of undermining one of the most important cornerstones of american propaganda is much higher than allowing tiktok to exist. They're treating this the same as the UK banning CGTN or RT but those were easy to do because only a few thousand people watched them to begin with, they had no political cost. The cost of this is one of the flagstones of the american lie with an entire generation.
Please just pull the app in the US, kids will start widely using VPNs just to use tiktok, it will be good for society.
So wait is biden just making the cool sms app into an even cooler one by banning it?
It kinda just seems like itll teach kids how to skirt the ban, make it more popular with ppl who want to use it and also keep libs and conservatives off it... seems like a win
healthcare pls
I'm glad we've solved all of society's major problems so that our politicians can spend their time legislating such trivial matters.
damn i was wrong on this one. never thought they would sign it. lmao
it means he will lose literally any and every 18-25 vote he might've gotten lmao BRANDON WHY
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I guess we’re just gonna have to TikTokTake ourselves to the polls.
Vote harder than ever!
But Xi was just about to dance me the instructions to insurrection
I wish we banned Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan and funded Tiktok creators, am I right?
the app would be no longer accessible in the app stores in the US
lmao you can literally just download .apk files for shit
lol. lmao even.
Putting it with Flappy Bird in the Undeletable App Preserve
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?
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.
CPC please take my data
"But still no healthcare for you plebian Americans" - Washington DC ghouls.
❎ ❎ A winner. ❎
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.
So just a ban from the app stores. Lmao. My 3rd party youtube app isn't available thru the stores either and it works great.
