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Re:The TikTok War by rvz on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:53AM (#23833383)
Good question. If you want to get into the Chinese market, you must comply with its laws and not get in the way of angering the CCP. China is one of Apple's largest markets due to its access to over 1B+ people and it now has its hands tied and anything the CCP wants removed, Apple will do it. [0][1][2]

Like you just said, TikTok already compiles with this security law and censors/bans whatever the CCP requests. By moving outside of China it can either lose access to the Chinese market and get banned by China or still comply with its laws and get banned by the US.

The thing is, TikTok has offices out side of China due to the Musical.ly acquisition (Located in the US) so can still operate there whilst Bytedance being headquartered in Beijing.

A takedown request can be made to the App Store owner. Apple and Google.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/04/new-york-times-apps-removed-i...

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2017/11/21/skype-china-app-store/

[2] https://9to5mac.com/2019/10/10/protest-app/

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Re:The TikTok War by throw57654 on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @02:13PM (#23835550)
TikTok is banned in China.

The company has an isolated version called Douyin that is only available in China.

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Re:The TikTok War by Udik on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @01:18PM (#23834780)
> or still comply with its laws and get banned by the US.

How does complying with China's laws in China will get you banned from the US? The US has all the right to establish the laws for products distributed on its own territory, as China does for its own.

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