Senate Bill to Ban TikTok

Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok by withinboredom on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @04:56PM (#35363485)

You can freely install apps on your iphone. All you need is an Apple computer. It only can be used for a week? before you have to install it again. I don't pay apple a dime and still develop software for iPhones occasionally without any issues.

Also, websites are pretty powerful. Apple even allowed websites to send notifications now.

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Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok by sebzim4500 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @05:15PM (#35363778)

If you believe that a significant portion of iOS users are going to set up an Apple development account and manually reinstall TikTok every week then I have a bridge to sell you.

They will just switch to a different social network, which is equally destructive but not Chinese.

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Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok by withinboredom on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @05:32PM (#35364026)

I didn’t do anything special. I just installed Xcode, and bam. Done.

We ripped CDs so we didn’t have to buy them. Hell, we sat by boomboxes until the right song came on the radio just to push record on the tape player.

Kids will do whatever it takes to get what they want. I’d buy that bridge.

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Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok by belval on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @05:51PM (#35364271)

> I just installed Xcode

I think you are overestimating the tech know-how of the average person and how driven the average teenager is. TikTok a year ago was pretty unique, but now you have YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels. I'd bet a hard money that 99% of people will just switch to those in a heartbeat if TikTok was banned.

> Kids will do whatever it takes to get what they want. I’d buy that bridge.

What they want is cheap dopamine hit from the smartphone. It's really close to drugs, make heroin hard to get and people will go to an analog like fentanyl.

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Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok by jrsj on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @06:02PM (#35364435)

Except a MacBook costs $1000+ when TikTok clones are free

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Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok by murukesh_s on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @06:59PM (#35365082)

I guess many of us underestimate how many teenagers own a smartphone but not a laptop/desktop computer. In older generation it was the reverse, people owned a laptop/desktop before owning a smartphone..

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Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok by Talanes on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @08:07PM (#35365818)

Even if they have a computer, it's not necessarily going to be an Apple computer. Unless you're a developer, interoperability between your mobile hardware and your desktop hardware is barely a concern.

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Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok by edgyquant on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @08:49PM (#35366186)

Most kids didn’t rip CDs though, they had a friend who was good with computers that occasionally did this for them.

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Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok by hunter-gatherer on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @09:10PM (#35366357)

> I just installed Xcode, and bam. Done.

Like the commenter above you said; I too have a bridge to sell.

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Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok by BaculumMeumEst on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @05:31PM (#35364019)

What percentage of TikTok users are you expecting to do either of those two things in order to access the app if it’s banned by the federal government?

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Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok by ddoolin on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @06:09PM (#35364531)

The government has multiple tools it can use to ban websites as well.

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Re:Senate Bill to Ban TikTok by ryukafalz on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:28PM (#35367535)

Serious question: would Apple and Google allowing users to install their own apps on their phones count as aiding/abetting in this case, when the crime is an American using TikTok?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686...

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