Title asks it all. “Banning” TikTok – is that at all possible? I understand they can make it hard for folks to get the TikTok app by coercing companies to remove the app from the app stores, but that’s simply a minor inconvenience I would think – I can’t imagine anything can be removed from the internet, access prohibited, etc. What am I missing here?
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They would add Bytedance to OFAC. The app stores would then have to drop the app.
Advertisers couldn’t pay to be on the app.
Content creators wouldn’t get paid.
That’s it, the app will die. Bytedance won’t bother supporting an older version of the app that’s not generating revenue.
Zero need for pressure on ISPs, or DNS providers.
https://ofac.treasury.gov/faqs
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