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TikTok could bypass US blockade by making a PWA

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Re: TikTok could bypass US blockade by making a PWA

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Post by datavirtue »

sschueller wrote: post #8

Funny is that even with the executive order to not enforce the law for now, it puts Apple and Google in legal limbo if they don't remove the app. They are the ones that will have to pay huge fines, not TikTok.

The executive branch whose first and only job during times of peace is to enforce the laws is now expected to not enforce the law? This whole fiasco is dumb.

Re: TikTok could bypass US blockade by making a PWA

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Post by Qem »

hammock wrote: post #5

My experience with PWAs is… not great. What are the best and/or most popular PWAs?

Not that popular yet, but the Newspeak programming language runs entirely as a PWA, up to the IDE. Makes it really easy to set up. See https://github.com/newspeaklanguage/newspeak and https://groups.google.com/g/newspeaklanguage/c/s7c74c4QVvM

Re: TikTok could bypass US blockade by making a PWA

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Post by metalcrow »

dlcarrier wrote: post #7

They already have a mobile web interface, that anyone can crate a shortcut to. It'll work fine as-is, with or without a 'PWA' buzzword. If a government really wanted to block internet access to a service provider, they'd block access to their servers, on all ports. The workaround would be a VPN, not a web interface. The US has this strange banning-but-not-really, because really banning it would be prohibited by the c…

How exactly would the do this block? At the ISP level? I don't _think_ the US Government has ever done that before, a block on that level would be pretty unprecedented and might be more then they are willing to do.
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