Do you think tiktok will be banned in US

[abbby]

Interesting to know what comes next for Tiktok in US...in fact, Singapore should also ban tiktok, useless application with no value and content..and really bad for kids, always not studying and watching tiktok instead.

[smoulder]

Tiktok was already banned in India. The US banning Tiktok would just be China getting a dose of its own medicine.

[sundaymorningstaple]

Best thing that could every happen. Frankly, X could go as well. I make out fine and have never subscribed to either and don't intend to.

[maneo]

Tiktok was already banned in India. The US banning Tiktok would just be China getting a dose of its own medicine.

"Dose of its own medicine"???
While ByteDance may be a Chinese company, China really has no vested interest in TikTok.
It's an annoyance to them as well.

The lame excuses for justifying the US ban are nonsense.
The so-called precious "data" of TikTok users is worthless.
Nothing to gain from all massive "info" the self-absorbed that likely have very low voting participation.

This act of banning TikTok essentially just "self-pleasuring."
It makes the lawmakers & supporters feel good a if they actually did something, but has no real impact on China.
ByteDance gets to cash out while interest in TikTok is still riding high & they get move on to other things.
Might be good for ByteDance in the long run.

[maneo]

Like the Huawei ban nonsense, it seems to be just an underhanded way to impact competition, under the false cover of "national security" nonsense.
It looks like this started with the competitor, Facebook, engaging a consulting firm in 2022 to villify TikTok. There's a Washington Post article about this (Mar 2022).

[malcontent]

Tiktok was already banned in India. The US banning Tiktok would just be China getting a dose of its own medicine.

"Dose of its own medicine"???
While ByteDance may be a Chinese company, China really has no vested interest in TikTok.
It's an annoyance to them as well.

The lame excuses for justifying the US ban are nonsense.
The so-called precious "data" of TikTok users is worthless.
Nothing to gain from all massive "info" the self-absorbed that likely have very low voting participation.

This act of banning TikTok essentially just "self-pleasuring."
It makes the lawmakers & supporters feel good a if they actually did something, but has no real impact on China.
ByteDance gets to cash out while interest in TikTok is still riding high & they get move on to other things.
Might be good for ByteDance in the long run.

What would you suggest they do instead that would have a real impact on China?

[smoulder]

Tiktok was already banned in India. The US banning Tiktok would just be China getting a dose of its own medicine.

"Dose of its own medicine"???
While ByteDance may be a Chinese company, China really has no vested interest in TikTok.
It's an annoyance to them as well.

The lame excuses for justifying the US ban are nonsense.
The so-called precious "data" of TikTok users is worthless.
Nothing to gain from all massive "info" the self-absorbed that likely have very low voting participation.

This act of banning TikTok essentially just "self-pleasuring."
It makes the lawmakers & supporters feel good a if they actually did something, but has no real impact on China.
ByteDance gets to cash out while interest in TikTok is still riding high & they get move on to other things.
Might be good for ByteDance in the long run.

Regardless of whether it is or isn't important or whether it is stupid or not, China seems to be annoyed about it. So yes - just a dose of their own medicine. Should give the CCP some more of that.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/prop ... 024-03-14/

[maneo]

What would you suggest they do instead that would have a real impact on China?

Isn't it quite presumptuous to think that the west & the US in particular can do anything to have a "real
impact" on China?
China is resilient.
Whatever the US does to suppress China helps make China more self-reliant.

Back in the early 19060's, the USSR withdrew all it's advisors & stopped sharing technical knowledge in to stop China's nuclear development. China proceeded anyway, testing a fission device in 1964 & then a thermonuclear device a few years after that.

China solves problems (maybe not all, but the ones that matter to them).
Education & technical capability is still very well respected in China.
They will continue to progress.

[sundaymorningstaple]

China notwithstanding, getting rid of tiktok might stop a lot of stupidity in the youth of the US today. Things like tide pods and other dangerous stunts that other equally stupid kids try and end up offing themselves. But, then again, maybe a good way to help clean up the gene pool there.....

Oh, @maneo been a while. Good to see you back on the board.

[maneo]

Oh, @maneo been a while. Good to see you back on the board.

It has been awhile.
Glad to see you're still keeping things going.

[maneo]

China notwithstanding, getting rid of tiktok might stop a lot of stupidity in the youth of the US today. Things like tide pods and other dangerous stunts that other equally stupid kids try and end up offing themselves. But, then again, maybe a good way to help clean up the gene pool there.....

Banning TikTok might stop new "challenges" from appearing for awhile, but don't you think something else will just crop up to take over & fill the vacuum?

Anyway, ByteDance might just sell it off, in which case TikTok would continue.

[maneo]

I don't think anyone has seriously thought out what will happen if TikTok is banned.
Maybe for entertainment ByteDance won't sell it off & will just let the ban happen.

So many people use the TikTok platform & they will not be happy.
Have heard that there are a lot of young people writing their representatives now & that they're not being very polite.

All in all, this whole TikTok thing is so ludicrous.
Project Texas would have isolated all the US TikTok data on Oracle servers in the US (monitored & administered by US personnel) so that it couldn't be accessed by foreign actors, but this solution was dismissed by legislators without any rational basis, showing that the whole TikTok ban exercise is just for show & not substance.

[Strong Eagle]

You watch. TikTok will not be banned. Instead, its Chinese owners will be forced to divest at fire sale prices. And waiting in the wings to buy it at fire sale prices will be a group of hedge fund billionaires, led by Steve Mnunchin, a former Treasury Secretary under trump, and a very well politically connected person. You can bet money that he's been lobbying members of Congress to do exactly that.

https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-mnuch ... 741df7093b

[tiktok]

I don't even want to go to the US.

[Steve Matthew]

TikTok's impact on youth is a growing concern globally. Its potential ban in the US might influence other countries, including Singapore, to consider similar actions.