Chief TWiT Mar 23, 2023

I really wonder how these members of Congress propose to "ban" TikTok.

Remove it from the app stores? Great. No more security fixes for users.

Build a great Firewall of the US? Pretty unseemly for a "democratic" nation.

Make it illegal to have TikTok on your phone? Pardon me, citizen. I need to examine your device.

Failing a workable way to ban an app I'm afraid this is all just performative sabre rattling.

Show threadKhalid ⚡Mar 23, 2023

@leo You could probably ban them from hosting their app infrastructure on U.S. or European servers.

The lag and degraded user experience might be enough to drive folks nuts.

Show threadIcyShark
@khalidabuhakmeh @leo doesn't banning them from hosting or storing their app/data in the US make it "worse" (from the US protectionism POV)? Moving all their data out of the hand of US laws?
Mar 23, 2023 at 3:55pmWeb
Show threadKhalid ⚡Mar 23, 2023

@IcyShark @leo another thing the U.S. could do is keep American businesses from advertising on the platform. We already have embargoes in place for other things.

That would effectively break TikTok's revenue model.

I'm not arguing these are good or bad, just that lawmakers could take these steps.

Show threadDirtJeansMar 23, 2023

@khalidabuhakmeh @IcyShark @leo

This seems the most likely scenario to me.