US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19

Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by lupusreal on Monday December 16, 2024 @09:37AM (#42431331)

Europe should ban American social media companies. They'd be doing themselves a favor, and a favor to most Americans as well (who, shareholders excepted, do not personally benifit from these tech corps being so massive.)

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Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by mu53 on Monday December 16, 2024 @11:09AM (#42432328)

I think every country should develop their own social media. It would be best if it was federated-like services that smaller countries could just run the plain open source version of.

Any democratic country that has a large portion of their population using american social media is essentially a modern US colony.

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Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by fsflover on Monday December 16, 2024 @11:13AM (#42432353)

> I think every country should develop their own social media.

There is Mastodon already, which is federated. EU already set up their own servers.

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Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by johnzim on Monday December 16, 2024 @02:38PM (#42434526)

It is federated and it has benefits but the UX is garbage for average people and the actual protocol isn't one that'll scale.

You don't need an A+ protocol to get great if your product is good enough / dead simple to use but neither of those things apply to Mastodon, as much as I'd like them to.

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Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by fsflover on Monday December 16, 2024 @05:42PM (#42436307)

I don't see how Mastodon's UX is worse than the one of Twitter, which is good enough, judging by the number of users.

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Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by gibsonpil on Monday December 16, 2024 @03:32PM (#42435102)

That would result in a domino effect that would inevitably result in the internet being segregated by nationality.

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Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by jordanb on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @07:20AM (#42440790)

The walled gardens would be. On the other hand it would likely drive interoperability.

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Re:US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove Tik... by petre on Monday December 16, 2024 @04:42PM (#42435770)

Add Tiktok to those as well. In fact it should be the first one banned along with Meta.

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