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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by dheera on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:51AM (#24083189)
The real loser of this battle will be Apple, not China; they may just lose all their Chinese users in the US to Android in a couple months.

The US is and will always be a free speech country, and they cannot go to the extent of imposing a firewall like China does. The extent to which they can take action is to require WeChat and TikTok off the app stores of the US. Which would leave Android users the option to install the app directly from an APK file, bypassing the Google store (no rooting required) while Apple users basically have no recourse without jailbreaking.

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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by thekyle on Friday August 07, 2020 @08:13PM (#24087799)
In practice, I think iOS users will just move on to the next social networking app and forget that TikTok ever existed.
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Re:US to ban transactions with ByteDance and WeChat in 45 days by dheera on Saturday August 08, 2020 @11:35AM (#24092414)
For TikTok, maybe, but WeChat is different -- people use it to keep in touch with families and friends at home.
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