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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Stop Play & App store from publishing it for download on US-based carriers, black-hole it via DNS, and incentivize the Verizons and T-Mobiles of the country to disallow traffic to it. This would be a major inconvenience for users.
…which is, IMO, what they should be doing for servers used by cybercrime groups attacking companies and people the US… but the main problem is these tactics are *highly subject to overreach and/or misinterpretation*. Plus, we have plenty of our own companies that suck up data they shouldn’t collect (e.g., Google, Meta).
So they won’t ban it, they’ll just talk about it, make it a bullet point about relations with China, and move on to the election.
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