4mo ago

TikTok denied emergency request to stop ban from taking effect

abcnews.go.com

Summary

TikTok’s request to pause a pending ban and January 19th sale deadline was denied by a federal appeals court.

The court upheld the constitutionality of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, citing national security concerns.

TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has until January 19th to sell or face a ban.

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This all seems so pointless while sites like X thrive.
And now I'm realizing Musk will ensure it does get banned so he can slurp everyone up into his own foreign interference cesspool.
Hopefully they all go to BlueSky instead.
- TikTok users aren't going to Bluesky, they'll go to IG. Perhaps Reels, but I doubt it
  X is loosing users to Bluesky, but much more slowly than right after the election. Engagement is much higher per follower there and everyone I've seen has been happy to move but I also think it's about a critical mass of big accounts moving over and bringing their followers. A lot of left wing journalists are there. A lot of news has broken there before X, but I actually learned about Mangione's arrest here on Lemmy first.
  I think Bluesky has potential, I joined after the election when it was gaining attention (deleted my Twitter account long ago) and it was around 18M users. It gained another 3 million rapid fire, but now I think it just hit 24 or 25M. So the X-odus could use another kick in the pants.
  I don't necessarily like huge social networks, but I'm voting for it to kill X.
- Wdym pointless? That is the point. The other big social media companies and their leaders can be easily influenced by US politicians while TikTok so far couldnt. Thats why it is being banned.
- Inability to reinstall when a phone is broken or replaced will send it on a slow death spiral if all they do is remove it from the stores. Or in Android's case I guess this could drive users into adopting other app stores.
  I think they will literally delete the app from our phones if they have that capability.
- I’d like all of these data harvesting scumbags to get a kick where the sun don’t shine.
  I’m not gonna boo one getting it because another hasn’t yet. I’m gonna cheer and hope for another.
  Granted that’s not likely under the guy who wants to separate families and give billionaires tax cuts.

Maybe they should donate to trump’s inauguration fund. That seems to gain his favor.
- Nah there are too many left radicalizing videos on the platform for Trump to ever approve. (Ignore the overwhelming torrent of Trumpets and MAGAtts on the app - they don't matter to him)

There's that "free market" again.
- China doesn't have a free market and does not allow US-based social media in the country. Why should the US allow China to operate in the US without reciprocity?

Platform is kill. Most of the users are quite casual and not technically inclined and will simply give up if they can’t reinstall the application from the store.

Just need to now pass and implement a Protecting Americans from Domestic Adversary Controlled Applications Act with adversary defined as all the data stealing, data selling, shareholder value maximizing, endless increasing profit, grotesquely capitalistic, corporations.

Getting to the spot to shut it off. I thought this all would work out, one way or another. Now, I'm starting to think maybe it won't
- They'll move it out of the US, either shore up web app access or deliver applications through other means. That does leave a lot of iOS users in the dark though
  
  That doesn't really matter. They can still block it from the US very easily.

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