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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by mcintyre1994 on Friday August 07, 2020 @06:49AM (#24080494)
> The real answer is to wait until China runs out of things to copy.

The thing is that this order is about TikTok which comes from a Chinese company, has a US company currently trying to buy it while another has just released a shameless clone of it to their users. Maybe in this situation it is different because China aren't the ones doing the copying?

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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by api on Friday August 07, 2020 @06:57AM (#24080548)
TikTok is a copy of Snapchat and Instagram. The only reason it's such a juggernaut is money. It's been very heavily and cleverly marketed, especially to younger demographics. Schools are flooded with TikTok swag, and they've hired domestic marketing agencies to push it. It's really obvious that someone has dumped enormous amounts of money into shoving TikTok at kids and teens.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by ptenk on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:14PM (#24083518)
You obviously have never used TikTok. Possibly the most ridiculous comment on HN.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by mikechen233 on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:11PM (#24083478)
Tiktok has a completely different concept than Instagram and Snapchat. The entire product philosophy is different.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by novok on Friday August 07, 2020 @12:38PM (#24083832)
More accurately, a copy of vine :p
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by k12sosse on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:24AM (#24082886)
Why is this downvoted? Are you all child-less?
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