Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action

Re:Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action by akersten on Saturday August 01, 2020 @12:17AM (#24017546)

Have US ISPs ever been asked/told to block IPs (or even DNS) before? I don't think it's something the FCC could do, especially since they've abdicated most of their authority over the internet to the FTC. Even still, I doubt they have the authority to do it or the means to impose penalties for noncompliance.

Even if they could - what is a TikTok IP? I'm confident their US endpoints are AWS or Google Cloud - good luck blocking those.

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Re:Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action by whoisjuan on Saturday August 01, 2020 @12:23AM (#24017583)

I’m pretty sure that at TikTok level you need operate with a VPC and have your own range of IPs.

Also ISPs and Mobile Carriers have their own blocking and network redirection methods, like url filtering with transparent proxies, that are used to re-lane traffic based on bandwidth usage. a.k.a putting Netflix on the slow lane

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