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Re:TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong by paxys on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @01:29AM (#23756010)
ByteDance has a different version of TikTok (called Douyin) for the Chinese market, which complies with their censorship restrictions. My guess is they pulled TikTok out of HK to replace it with Douyin.
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Re:TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong by hkmaxpro on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @02:33AM (#23756340)
Not just Douyin, Tiktok also complies with their censorship restrictions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23756148
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Re:TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong by reactchain on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:04PM (#23776299)
Douyin is likely better designed for censorship, data collection and so on, particularly in the context of Chinese language - I'd say the parent comment is right, the goal here is to replace TikTok with Douyin.
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Re:TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong by xwolfi on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:34AM (#23757657)
Better: it's a way to pull it away from a money-losing market without spooking investors: "Oh it's not that we failed in a Chinese city, it's that new law you know"...

It's absolutely ridiculous a Chinese company would be the first to actually close down the service to protect users, don't you think ?

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