TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell | Entrepreneur
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President Biden signed a bill that states if TikTok doesn't cut ties with its China-based parent company ByteDance over the next nine months to a year, it will be banned in the U.S.
  • stonerboner
    5·
    1 year ago

    I’m stating than less than 2% of American TikTok users will use VPN to bypass TikTok leaving the market.

    You’re crazy if you think VPN usage is high among the general public on a regular basis. And that number’s intersection with using a VPN to specifically work around this will be extremely low.

    I absolutely stand by holding TikTok responsible, and any other company responsible. This, coupled with the FTC poised to bring back Net Nuetrality, is a great step in the right direction. I look forward to this energy setting up more data protection, foreign and domestic.

    • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m stating than less than 2% of American TikTok users will use VPN to bypass TikTok leaving the market.

      Now you can predict the future with such certain statistics? First of all, more TikTok users than that already use VPNs. So you’re already incorrect.

      You’re crazy if you think VPN usage is high among the general public on a regular basis. And that number’s intersection with using a VPN to specifically work around this will be extremely low.

      VPN usage wasn’t all that high, before porn bans happened. Once those started, US searches for VPNs drastically spiked. Once again, it will happen with TikTok. They’re literally already discussing this on the platform, I’m not sure how else to tell you this.

      and any other company responsible.

      You sure don’t seem like it. It seems like you’ve got your blinders on to exactly who those other companies are. This bill will not lead to positive domestic privacy changes, because it is focused on “foreign adversaries”. It won’t open the door, because the whole reason this was able to pass in the first place is because the republicans have a huge hate boner for TikTok exclusively. Kind of like yourself.

      This, coupled with the FTC poised to bring back Net Nuetrality, is a great step in the right direction.

      While I was happy to hear about that earlier, this doesn’t really apply to this conversation.

      I look forward to this energy setting up more data protection, foreign and domestic.

      Congress doesn’t care about protecting our data domestically. You’ll turn to dust by the time they actually give a shit about that.