January 17, 2025 at 9:36:46 PM UTC

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I’ll admit I haven’t kept up on the tiktok ban: what specifically about tiktok’s infrastructure is going to be affected? The app in the app store? The web site? Why not just move the TikTok servers overseas?

13 replies

Casey Collins 2 min later

They are voluntarily taking it offline. The ban impacts Apple and Google listing TikTok in the App Store and Oracle hosting their data. At least that’s my understanding
1. Zach Leatherman 9 min later
  
  Huh — weird. So it’s not a ban at all? 👀
  1. Christian 19 min later
    
    As far as i can tell, the recent court ruling was about whether a law passed last year requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok within 12 months might violate users’ first amendment rights. The court ruled it wouldn’t violate those rights.
    1. Christian 22 min later
      
      There are a lot of inflammatory headlines because clicks mean ad revenue
  2. leah 🛸 32 min later
    
    its a required divestiture within 270 days, or else companies that provide services to tiktok (app stores providing tiktok downloads for example) would be fined heavily if they continued to provide for tiktok
    1. leah 🛸 32 min later
      
      which is... a ban
      1. leah 🛸 34 min later
        
        (tiktok effectively can't be sold, as the proprietary algorithm tiktok uses under the hood is owned *by* bytedance, who refuses to sell it. if the app was sold without its algorithm it would be effectively worthless, so nobody wants to buy it either)
        
        Casey Collins 4 hr later
        
        Well that’s ByteDance/ the Chinese government being stubborn
        
        leah 🛸 4 hr later
        
        i mean its like saying someone has to go to jail unless they donate their heart. its not feasible for them to stay alive by giving up their most essential organ!
    2. DIANA 1 day later
      
      Would Oracle be on the list of folks who couldn't work with tiktok? Or is that considered tiktok itself?
      1. Casey Collins 2 days later
        
        I believe Oracle is included in that
Christian 4 min later

Probably nothing. The whole ordeal is ridiculous. And dangerous.

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1. Zach Leatherman 10 min later
  
  *wild*