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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by rtkwe on Friday January 17, 2025 @01:20PM (#42741539)
It will take ages for that to happen. AFAIK the "ban" only really removes it from app stores, I don't think it even requires store owners to force it off of phones that have downloaded it already.
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by nickthegreek on Friday January 17, 2025 @02:20PM (#42742189)
The data must be hosted in the US. Oracle will have to shutdown their servers.
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by jhaile on Friday January 17, 2025 @02:24PM (#42742234)
Although TikTok has said they are gearing up to shut the service down.
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by glenstein on Friday January 17, 2025 @04:12PM (#42743290)
I wonder if it's more of a deactivation pending XYZ, with a readiness to flip the on-switch back on if there's a course correction in the U.S. (which it seems like there might be).
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by OKRainbowKid on Friday January 17, 2025 @01:37PM (#42741748)
It probably prevents them from distributing updates though.
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Re:Supreme Court rules to uphold TikTok ban, setting stage f... by rtkwe on Friday January 17, 2025 @01:53PM (#42741921)
True enough but I don't think that will be fast either. The main reason to update would be features and they can keep the old version of any APIs up to support US customers. Other than that the only reason they would have to update is any breaking changes in Android/iOS which are a lot rarer these days afaik since they're both so mature as OSs.
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