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social media app that has up to 80 million daily active users in the United States. Crazy that one person can ban something over 1/4 the US population uses eve
by ideals 6y ago
social media app that has up to 80 million daily active users in the United States.
Crazy that one person can ban something over 1/4 the US population uses every day. The implications of that are staggering.
(for any politically trigger fingered voters who think this opinion is derived based on current administration, you would be incorrect. I do not think something like this should ever be decided by a single person, it should go through congress and if a new law or decision is the result of that, the party which is to be banned should have the ability to make their case to SCOTUS)
- 627467 6y agoI don't know if it's "crazy" that 1 person (if it's indeed just 1 person) can ban an app. After all political/judicial/comercial orders to ban things happen all the time. I think it's more telling that 1 decision can be effective actually banning it - considering that there are so many things/services that are banned and yet available online, the fact that this hypothetical ban be effective, says more for the tech stack of this app/service than for the actually political/commercial decision to ban it.
- jdatsun34 6y agoGreat Firewall of the USA - "if the NSA can't use it to spy on you, it's not truly freedom"
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- sukilot 6y agoCrazy that one person controls an app that over 1/4 the US population uses. Crazy that over 1/4 the population uses one entertainment app. I don't even see how that's possible, even if all tweens/teens/teen-aspirationals use it.
- Mehdi2277 6y agoThe simple answer is the age penetration in older ages has grown. You can use these numbers to get a rough estimate, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1095186/tiktok-us-users-age/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1095186/tiktok-us-users-... Disclaimer: I work at US tiktok.