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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by JumpCrisscross on Friday January 17, 2025 @11:28AM (#42739735)
> Tiktok was forced to separate itself into a chinese version and the non-chinese version by the US because we didn't want "da ccp" controlling tiktok

No. TikTok was forced to put its data on American servers [1].

Douyin was launched in 2016 as musical.ly, and is unrelated to U.S. pressure. (EDIT: Douyin was launched in 2016, TikTok in 2017. Musical.ly was acquired in 2017 and merged into/basically became TikTok. TikTok has never been in China.)

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/tiktok-moves-us-user-data...

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by sureglymop on Friday January 17, 2025 @11:36AM (#42739876)
Musical.ly was not China only and I knew musical.ly before it was the predecessor of tiktok. From how I recall it, it had mostly American users. Was the split during the rebranding?
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by JumpCrisscross on Friday January 17, 2025 @11:49AM (#42740098)
> Was the split during the rebranding?

Musical.ly was acquired by Bytedance in 2017 and merged into TikTok in 2018 [1]. TikTok itself “was launched internationally in 2017” [2].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20191005154207/https://beebom.co...

[2] https://chinagravy.com/what-is-douyin-an-introduction/

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