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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Removing from the apple app store takes care of about half the users
Removing from google play takes care of all the android people that don’t know you can sideload
Now the app has lost 80+% of its user base and is not profitable anymore for creators and they stop bothering to upload there to get 7 views
It would be as effective as taking down The Pirate Bay 🙂 as long as users had a desire to continue using at once banned.
Honestly, there’s ways to ensure zero access. When India banned tiktok at the turn of the decade, I thought the same thing. I’d use a vpn, load an apk. Turns out if the government wants to ban something, it can do it really well lol. If you load an apk, it doesn’t work. If you use a vpn, it doesn’t work. If you use it in another country and come back to India, it doesn’t work anymore.
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