Where will the zoomers go?
TikTok goes dark in the US
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#52Is this going to be a crazy year?
I’d be shocked if this is anywhere close to the craziest thing that happens this year, so, yes.
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#53I'm really curious and somewhat worried about what the economic effect of this is going to be. There are a number of legitimate small businesses that saw a lot of, if not all of, their business and customer base through TikTok. Business that just will not be able to make the move to somewhere else. I personally know musicians, actors, and artists that got a lot of work through TikTok. People who actually create thing…
They had plenty of time to figure this out.
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#54So I have a relatively large extended family covering a wide age range and we talk pretty frequently in a shared SMS group - most of them have noted the ban with a passing level of irritation but nobody's "freaking out" like if you lost access to a platform like Facebook, Twitter, or Discord that's more oriented around communication rather than consumption. I understand that people spend a lot of time doomscrolling o…
That's weird, my optimistic side is hoping it'll have a noticeable positive effect on people's mental health.
Maybe once they also ban American propaganda on American social media platforms.
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#55I wish for TikTok-style short form lowest common denominator videos to fall out of fashion.
Trying to copy TikTok is probably the worst thing Instagram has done. Their “suggested reels” are a cancer.
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#56I hope trump will reverse this action. I don't want government to decide what I am allowed to watch.
> don't want government to decide what I am allowed to watch
We’ve had almost a century of foreign-ownership limits for media properties [1]. (It’s recently been relaxed but not released [2].)
[1] https://www.fcc.gov/general/foreign-ownership-rules-and-poli...
[2] https://www.broadcastlawblog.com/2017/02/articles/fcc-approv...
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#57I'm really curious and somewhat worried about what the economic effect of this is going to be. There are a number of legitimate small businesses that saw a lot of, if not all of, their business and customer base through TikTok. Business that just will not be able to make the move to somewhere else. I personally know musicians, actors, and artists that got a lot of work through TikTok. People who actually create thing…
There's nothing inherently special about TikTok. It just happens to be the hot social media platform right now. There were plenty before it and there will be plenty after it. There will be a short period of adjustment and eventually everyone will move on to something else. People aren't going to stop listening to music or buying things.
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#58I'm really curious and somewhat worried about what the economic effect of this is going to be. There are a number of legitimate small businesses that saw a lot of, if not all of, their business and customer base through TikTok. Business that just will not be able to make the move to somewhere else. I personally know musicians, actors, and artists that got a lot of work through TikTok. People who actually create thing…
My friend who is bartender downstairs from my condo is a singer in a band. They are active on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram.
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#59Did they also delist themselves from the App Store or is that by Apple and Google?
The text of the bill explicitly holds app marketplaces liable for civil penalties if they distribute "foreign adversary controlled applications". So my guess is that Apple and Google are both opting to prevent distribution, even if ByteDance is willing to delist TikTok itself
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521...
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#60I'd like to discuss the pop-up's content. If it comes out to be that one guy, President Trump, CAN pass an executive order that effectively ignores a law that Congress passed AND the Supreme court upheld unanimously, it's a very dangerous precedent.
He can direct the justice department not to enforce a law.