Re:TikTok Congress Hearing
by mannerheim on Thursday March 23, 2023 @11:14AM
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I doubt American citizens would be banned from accessing TikTok. It would just be banned from app stores and CDNs, presumably if they sideload or visit the website they will be able to access it.
I think this would effectively drop the usage (maybe not to 0 but enough to allow other social services to come back on the stage). Most people don't know how to sideload or don't want to sideload anything out of app store, the webpage version is unwieldy to use.
Re:TikTok Congress Hearing
by cscurmudgeon on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:06PM
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/12/google-ch...
> Google said the cyber attack originated from China and that its intellectual property was stolen, but that evidence suggested a primary goal was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
How many Chinese human rights activists use or used Hotmail?
Quite a lot in the old days. Microsoft is a well-known brand in China. Grandma and grandpas are repeating stories of Bill Gates during 00s, they don't know who tf Sergey is. There are very minimal Mac users, so computer = PC = Windows + Office = Microsoft.
Re:TikTok Congress Hearing
by cscurmudgeon on Friday March 24, 2023 @12:13PM
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That doesn't mean tech-savvy human rights activists used Microsoft's HotMail over Gmail.
American politicians who want to copy Chinese policies to retaliate for unfair treatment of American companies would be retaliating against American citizens for unfairly having First Amendment rights when Chinese citizens don't.