House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app

Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by est on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @11:44AM (#39692800)

Which means Tiktok was banned.

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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by Manuel_D on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @11:49AM (#39692914)

TikTok is Douyin with a different coat of paint. They're near identical apps run by the same company, ByteDance. It's not banned in China, it just has a different name.

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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by dotancohen on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @12:01PM (#39693140)

And different content, which is what matters.

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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by Manuel_D on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @01:24PM (#39694448)

Sure, by virtue of China's stricter regulation of social media. But for all intents and purposes, Douyin is TikTok in China. Or rather TikTok is Douyin in the rest of the world outside of China.

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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by tsol on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @03:32PM (#39696294)

Americans spend a lot of time complaining about artificial Chinese filtering. It makes sense they'd serve them different content.

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