Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage for shutdown

Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by permo-w on Friday January 17, 2025 @12:51PM (#42741124)

I'd like to see their working for that number. Let's say we subtract 20% from Canada + the UK + the US, we get ~320 million. add Nigeria and Uganda and you have easily 400 million. That's without Australia, Ireland, New Zealand or any of the African or Caribbean countries.

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by Retric on Friday January 17, 2025 @01:11PM (#42741414)

> You have easily 400 million

No you don’t: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Nigeria

~60 million people in Nigeria speak English out of 230 million people, but that 60 million isn’t almost exclusively native speakers.

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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by InsideOutSanta on Friday January 17, 2025 @01:07PM (#42741357)

There aren't that many native English speakers in Nigeria and Uganda. To me, it looks like your back-of-the-envelope calculation will come pretty close to 400 million.

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