And a pander to his (Trump's) racist followers.

L-

You can watch Tik Tok videos on FB or wherever.....

Called Reels (he tried another one, Lasso, last year)

and TikToq is threatening this...

And he has a competitor in the works...

So this a salvation for Zuck being late to this party...

And how, exactly, does Trump plan to keep TikTok from being accessible to Americans?

If he can justify potential security breaches, he could probably do it. It'd only work on jailbroken phones then, and that has a whole other set of problems.

Knowing Traitor Tot’s petty, thin-skinned narcissism, I wouldn’t be surprised if her TikTok posts were a factor.

So Sarah Cooper is literally the only contact I’ve ever had with TikTok. I’m guessing she’s smart enough to show up on just about any platform she’d like.

He is such an idiot baby.

But I love her. Hope you are all well!

I'll keep on getting along fine without Tiktok.

Another thing: with the tech billionaires testifying on Capitol Hill this week (and Bill Gates's old company trying to buy Tiktok), it was killing Trump for them to be in the spotlight, and he wanted it to shine on himself instead.

I'm so looking forward to the day when we can go a whole day without hearing his odious name.

at that Trump rally in Tulsa.

Cool play on words!

Why else would Trump oppose even an American company to acquire it"

Can anyone think of some other countries whose government decides which internet services and websites and apps its citizens are allowed to access?

Wonder if the "Muh freedumbs" brigade will have anything to say about this.......not holding my breath.

I'm sure Afghanistan does..I think even India bans some apps and services.

and incidentally, Indonesia for awhile

when an app is horrible, we have to view it as such. we can dislike trump and tiktok at the same time.

Only dumb Libs use Tik Tok, they never would, never did, nope. BTW, And did you know we've always been at war with Eastasisa?

Go roll around in a grease fire, Tiny Toadstool.

Tik Tok is Chinese spyware.

stopped clock....

other countries are doing it... in fact i fault him for being too slow

They weren't very nice to him.

....Access Hollywood video.

Almost every piece of technology we use is made in China, why else single out this specific app?

Today Gym Jordan was trying to get Fauci to say that protesters should be stopped because of coronavirus

Yesterday Shitler floated postponing the elections.

He's an absolute idiot.

If he tries it and anyone wants to know how to use vpn servers based outside the USA, or free DNS sites to connect to TikTok ping me - I'll show the way.

Really interested to see how this plays out.

It is essentially spyware, but so are smart phones and apps ect..

Even China has trouble controlling what their people have internet access to and that is with very tight internet blocking software with extremely draconian provisions for violating them.

the ban is already affecting millions of users across India, who are unable to use the blacklisted apps.

"As China has shown, governments can indeed block apps - not just remove them from the app stores, which has already happened in India, so you can't install them afresh or upgrade an existing install," says tech policy expert Prasanto K Roy.

He adds that although there are ways to get around the ban, it will "effectively kill" popular apps.

"If over 95% of 100 million users exit, that kills the 'network effect' and most of the content, and hence an app like TikTok is no longer attractive."

when it comes to blocking apps from running on android inside the US since there are many 3rd party sites to download android apps and sideload them.

Zoomers are just getting started and with this? Bro lol you don't know what you are fucking with

I'm not sure how you execute such an action without taking control of the internet.

By design the internet infrastructure is a hard beast to kill.

It was created to provide a secure, continuous, non-centralized communication path in case of Nuclear War.

I guess you could take some measure of control over the mainstream WWW, by compromising the Root DNS servers, but that won't stop the Dark Web or some older legacy protocols. Harder to use, but there are ways.

Besides, TikTok makes too much money...I think that perhaps this is a gesture to his asshat protege Zuckerburg more then anything else.

Tik Tok is just short videos, which are often shown on FB.

FB does promote FB Live, but it's clunky. I would rather just film something and upload it to YouTube than FB Live. (Mainly because I don't like filming live stuff)

put a region lock on the apps in apple store (they've already move their production to india, they would not be able to make iphone in china anymore due to TSMC will not sell 5nm ics to china anymore), so im sure apple is on board.

i'm sure google play can do the same

now, that is not a 100% ban, people who really want to, can probably download apk and install it on their phone.

but once the tiktok server are off line in america, i believe the only way to get around is to download the Chinese version of tiktok which is douyin and connect to the server back in china.

or some hacker can probably run a emulation private server to get it to work.


avg kids dont have time for that... when vine died, kids moved to tiktok.... so i believe they will just use some other clones
it was a pain in the butt for me to download a japanese region app, i had to have a japanese playstore account and change my phone to the asia region. then go back to english. then when there is an update, i have to repeat the process (if you do not have vpn)

eh i can write a few pages....

It's not as easy as you think.

if you make it hard for avg people to use, less and less people will use it.

telegram is a different type of app that is harder to kill...like PGP, the government will never be able to ban that form of communication

tiktok have more moving parts to make it work, so it is easier to block some elements and disrupt regular users. people love tiktok because of how easy it is to use.

just do what Microsoft ie did with netscape.

some people are persistent, some are not.

i can get around it, but it is just easier for me to find another video to watch.

I use it all the time.

Tik Tok is mostly a phone thing...and even on a computer, the clips mostly last less than a minute.

I just can't imagine using a VPN to watch silly clips on Tik Tok

If they can just get most of the people who don't have a jailbroken iphone, then they're golden. social media content creators want people to actually view their content. If vastly fewer people are going to tik tok, they'll move their content onto another platform.

Are there any other similar cases of the US banning citizens from using an app? How would that even work in practice? Force service providers to block? Force device manufacturers to ban it? That seems very China-like. Even if they did that, people will just by-pass any technology blocks if they really really want to.

how hard is it to get around the ban.
how easy is it to use an alternative.

on my work iphone, im not allow to use facebook, and it is locked down. i can either jailbreak the phone and remove the restriction (risk getting fired) or alternatively use my personal phone to check fb

Because if anything is on Americans' minds in 2020, it's the menace to life and democracy posed by TikTok.

I'm sick of people using their pets and animals as fucking props for video views. Less of an audience, the less it will happen. At least i hope.

There are many reasons to not use TikTok, as it eats personal information and comes out of an brutally oppressive regimen but to me, making happy little videos about ones cat or horse isn’t one of them. In fact, those kind of things are what make the app enjoyable.

It’s just a loser whining.

Maybe there already are

are everywhere.

Thinskinned tiny hands is having a TikTok fit ...

Teens, TikTok Users and K-Pop Fans Might Have Tricked Trump Into Expecting a Huge Turnout for His Widely-Hyped Tulsa Rally

They are a huge force to reckon with. I think he's going to fail again if he thinks this will slow them down.

We will call it a "banana".

Once you ban something, it's all people can think about.

If Trump required you to spend 3 hours a day on Facebook, the platform would crash by the end of the month.

It doesn't work that way. You're not "banning" a goddamn thing. Ugh.

It's pretty obviously Russian spyware.

I no it’s silly but I like Moonpie and Buttercup.

I follow Moonpie

Buttercup is so cute.

They cheer me up.

Whether a ban would even work is debatable. What people need to realize is until recently it had the capability to seriously compromise your data specifically your clipboard on iOS devices. Access to this data is whereby you have the device store your login data for websites and apps.

Already most large companies and DOD have forbade its installation by employees. It comes off as a cute way to share short videos but what it actually does is harvest data from the user. Notice it is forbidden in its country of origin for reasons more than videos.

In a previous life I was an Intelligence Specialist for the Navy with an old ass degree in Computer Science. I can only imagine the warnings are from dedicated people that really do care about security.

In what way are so-called clouds secure?

I cut my teeth on Token Ring in the 80’s lol.
My guess is it involves encryption on both ends that is multi layered. Cloud based is just a fancy way of saying it’s on a server somewhere else and using TCP/IP to retrieve it. Google and others spent time and money building server farms with mega data storage capability.

Funny thing our nukes are still using 8” floppy disks from the 70’s on systems that have no connectivity with other computers because it cannot be hacked. DOD is actively testing “cloud” use for some data it hasn’t gone as well as hoped. White Hat hackers have exposed many open ports that allowed access. In short nothing is truly safe if connected nor if rouge data like a thumb drive is introduced.

This may help
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/glossary/open-systems-interconnection-model-osi/

That is exactly what I thought. In short, nothing is truly secure unless a computer simply is not connected to other computers.

I remember reading about token ring as an old outdated technology back when I was starting out almost 20 years ago. Damn, that's depressing to say. 20 years. I did pull out an old install of token ring a long time ago, though. Anyway, aren't they just now finally getting around to replacing those old floppies with zip disks the nuclear silos? I'm kidding about the zip disks, but I do recall reading they are upgrading to use USB sticks or something.

He is such a fucking baby.

Tiktok employs 1200 people in the US with plans to employ upwards of 10,000 more over the next three years. This doesn't include Tiktokers who have monetized their accounts through various means.

So is he no longer the "job creator"?