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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by luma on Friday January 17, 2025 @12:15PM (#42740607)
Much like Google was eating the lunch of everything in China and the CCP, in response, made it essentially impossible for them to operate.

This is not new behavior between the two countries, the only thing new is the direction. US is finally waking up to the foreign soft power being exercised inside our own country, and it isn't benefiting us.

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by joshuaissac on Friday January 17, 2025 @03:17PM (#42742822)
> Google was eating the lunch of everything in China and the CCP, in response, made it essentially impossible for them to operate.

Google was operating in China until 2010 when they got banned because they stopped censoring search results. Other Western search engines like Bing continue operate in China.

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by throwawayq3423 on Friday January 17, 2025 @04:15PM (#42743320)
They also got their source code stolen by Chinese state hackers. The word "hostile" doesn't begin to describe their experience operating on the mainland.
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by nmfisher on Friday January 17, 2025 @10:13PM (#42745467)
Completely tangential, but from personal experience, the performance of Google Search had been degraded for at least 2 years prior, so when it was banned it was already mostly useless anyway.

GMail continued for a few years after that - I'm not even sure if it was ever actually banned, or just suffered the same fate (death by a thousands timeouts).

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