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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by untog on Saturday August 01, 2020 @01:46PM (#24022424)
It was a huge story yesterday that Trump has said he’s going to ban it.

And while it’s not clear exactly how they’d ban it, it certainly isn’t impossible. They could tell major telcos to block IP ranges. Or tell Apple and Google to pull the app. Everyone involved could just say no to the government but it’s not all that clear that they would.

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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by sushshshsh on Saturday August 01, 2020 @01:58PM (#24022528)
Considering the government strong armed Google into not interacting with Huawei, and considering many other governments have done IP bans / app store removal pressure, I find it a bit funny that the original reply was saying "who said the government will block TikTok?", as if that wasn't news directly from the President's mouth
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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by slowmovintarget on Saturday August 01, 2020 @02:00PM (#24022539)
I don't read Twitter... I especially don't read the President's tweets.
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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by sushshshsh on Saturday August 01, 2020 @02:04PM (#24022569)
Fair point, however it was blasted all over CNBC and etc, maybe I need to read the news less and my programming reference manuals more as a better use of my time
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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by slowmovintarget on Saturday August 01, 2020 @02:23PM (#24022711)
I placed an edit with an apology in my original comment.

Sigh. We're living in an Onion story.

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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by traek on Saturday August 01, 2020 @02:12PM (#24022634)
Do you read TFA? Because this info was in the first sentence.
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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by slowmovintarget on Saturday August 01, 2020 @01:59PM (#24022530)
Ha. President Trump tweets a lot of stuff that fails to take reality into account.

Personally, I hold anything said on Twitter to be at the same level of informational trust as something said in general chat in an on-line game.

The President may think he's playing a MMORPG, but I can thankfully shut the chat window.

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