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A comment on Ask HN: What would a TikTok ban look like?.

Re:Ask HN: What would a TikTok ban look like? by lovelearning on Monday April 22, 2024 @07:26AM (#40113274)
There's an implicit assumption here that the ban enforcement will involve/require adversarial technical approaches.

But I think it'll be similar to India's 4-year-old ban on TikTok where the local corporate entity itself has cooperated with the ban to avoid legal repercussions. TikTok has been detecting IP addresses from India and showing a legal notice that it's banned in the country due to a government/court order.

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Re:Ask HN: What would a TikTok ban look like? by HotGarbage on Monday April 22, 2024 @11:55AM (#40115564)
Ah, I wasn't aware of the India ban or how it was handled.

I guess I assumed TikTok might try to keep operating in the US out of defiance.

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