HeavenAndEarth [she/her]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months agoU.S. Senator just straight up revealed the real reason they are banning TikTokhexbear.netimagemessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1257arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1256arrow-down1imageU.S. Senator just straight up revealed the real reason they are banning TikTokhexbear.netHeavenAndEarth [she/her]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square39fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up72·7 months agoidk all signs point to Bytedance not budging on this so it will be really funny if this backfires and tiktok becomes unavailable in the US. Might see youtube shorts take off or something totally unforeseen pretty wild shit all around.
minus-squareJohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52·7 months agosomeone mentioned the EU might force apple to allow side-loading in an unrelated suit and that would make the ban meaningless
minus-squareyuli [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up47·7 months agofrom what I’ve heard side-loading will only be enabled in the EU. the fanboys have told me this is a good thing, uwu smol bean apple is just protecting kids from downloading Clash_of_Clans_Hack_2024_Working.ipa wonder if a tiktok ban changes their mind
minus-squareFrogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43·7 months agoThat’s what happened in India after TikTok got banned there. YouTube shorts took off and so did another platform called Josh. My only concern with YouTube shorts taking off is that their algorithm is a far-right cesspool.
idk all signs point to Bytedance not budging on this so it will be really funny if this backfires and tiktok becomes unavailable in the US.
Might see youtube shorts take off or something totally unforeseen pretty wild shit all around.
someone mentioned the EU might force apple to allow side-loading in an unrelated suit and that would make the ban meaningless
from what I’ve heard side-loading will only be enabled in the EU.
the fanboys have told me this is a good thing, uwu smol bean apple is just protecting kids from downloading Clash_of_Clans_Hack_2024_Working.ipa
wonder if a tiktok ban changes their mind
That’s what happened in India after TikTok got banned there. YouTube shorts took off and so did another platform called Josh.
My only concern with YouTube shorts taking off is that their algorithm is a far-right cesspool.