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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by gkbrk on Friday January 17, 2025 @11:35AM (#42739866)
English is literally the most commonly spoken language in the world. No language in the world will fit your criteria if you want more than two thirds of the global population to speak it.
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by Retric on Friday January 17, 2025 @12:37PM (#42740939)
Why would that criteria matter when what we are discussing is the impact when you remove a country’s creators from a platform?
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by JumpCrisscross on Friday January 17, 2025 @01:07PM (#42741369)
> Why would that criteria matter when what we are discussing is the impact when you remove a country’s creators from a platform?

That country’s creators belong to the largest native-speaking bloc of the most-commonly spoken language (native or not) in the world.

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by Retric on Friday January 17, 2025 @01:25PM (#42741604)
Actual numbers of English speakers already captured that info. Saying there’s no other language that comes close doesn’t change anything here.
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