TikTok will completely shut down app in US on Sunday as ban looms
TikTok will completely shut down app in US on Sunday as ban looms
TikTok is reportedly planning a total shutdown of the Chinese-owned video-sharing app when the law requiring a ban or sale of the app takes effect on Sunday.
The roughly 170 million US users who try to access the app will be greeted with a pop-up message directing them to a website with details about the ban, according to the Information.
Users will also be given the option of downloading their data from the app, sources familiar with the plan told the outlet.
Are American iPhone users going to rediscover web browsing? https://www.tiktok.com/explore
Are American Android users going to discover sideloading? https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-use-tiktok-if-its-banned-in-the-us
Kind of funny that this kicks in the day before an inauguration.
Not funny, a deliberate decision by the legislature in order to safeguard it from whoever was going to win the election (since it was set before the election).
Conveniently just in time for Trump to blame it on the Democrats even though he started the process during his previous term.
Can we ban nypost please?
There goes my plan to sell jailbroken iPhones to zoomers.
Could you not access with a VPN?
Access what? There is nothing to access.
Users will also be given the option of downloading their data from the app, sources familiar with the plan told the outlet.
That’s nice of them. I bet Facebook and Twitter wouldn’t do that.
Pretty sure they're both required to do that by law. I've downloaded all my Facebook data a few times
True, but I doubt they’d put the effort into making it easy for someone to download it in the message.
Maybe I should get on tiktok. A social media app with Americans sounds wonderful
without*?
Also I think this only affects one country in America?
Yes, my bad. Without.
What exactly does that mean? I dont use tiktok, but I imagine it will still work if I already have it installed? Or is this a geoip restriction that doesn't affect Tor users? Or is it just not in the app stores?
Since it's not active, it looks to just be geo based as changing my VPN location makes it work.... This was my first time visiting the website and it was showing someone opening an egg he boiled for 2 hours... 💀
But what do all these TikTok users need to do suddenly? Talk to each other face to face? Doing something useful in live? Help?
You are typing on a computer / phone right now on another social media platform, probably not the time to feel superior.
Youre on lemmy, specifically a small community within a small community. Can't you see the irony?
I did forget to add /s
Na, Instagram and YouTube have short form videos now.
Good we should be more invested in better apps like redNOTE.
RedNote is just another corporate social media platform, so I won’t gush over it. But it is exposing Burgerstanis to regular people in China, which is a positive. I have no idea how the RedNote’s owners are going to respond to this. For instance, how are they going to monetize an American audience? Or at least recoup the costs? I doubt they had a plan for this, because I don’t think anyone could have predicted it.
The US government will likely censor this app as well. I think this falls under the same law that TikTok does.
I wouldn't be surprised if China locked out US users before the US even banned it. Chinese are already telling US users that they are saying things that DEFINITELY should not be said on the app.
Here's a little Nostradamus... "I had the most best chat with Xi. He told me that Americans are superior to the Chinese, so they don't want to see us on RedNote anymore. But don't worry, I told you I would save Tiktok... introducing Trump Talk"
I think it's even better to not use these kind of 'social media' apps.