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TikTok should just let the US government ban them. Teenagers can figure out how to VPN to Mexico and it's better PR for TikTok. "So good the government won't le
by knolax 6y ago
TikTok should just let the US government ban them. Teenagers can figure out how to VPN to Mexico and it's better PR for TikTok. "So good the government won't let you use it" is better optics than "TikTok, now owned by some Boomer company". As a hip youngster myself, just the name Oracle makes me think of beige and grey Windows Vista era software and shitty enterprise software.
- the-dude 6y agoUpvoted for the perspective. Totally unrealistic view the average consumer is going to use a VPN to reach a particular service though. The average consumer does not care(TM) and chooses convenience. And convenience will be brought by FB for example.
- knolax 6y agoMost teenagers already use VPNs to get past network filters used in school WiFis and child filters on their data plans. Plus pornhub operates their own VPN so we know using a VPN to access just one service is something people already do. I think this idea of a mindless consumer is an unhealthy attitude tech people have that leads to so much shitty software. People who don't browse HN can use computers too.
- the-dude 6y agoI agree some might use VPNs, but most seems like a claim which needs some evidence.
- kalleboo 6y agoThe problem is that with a transaction ban, no US companies can buy ads on TikTok, removing any financial point in running the service for US customers
- smallchungus 6y agoSo be it?
- JetSpiegel 6y agoProving that TikTok is just a money-making enterprise, not a CCP tentacle manipulating foreign elections. Otherwise they you just run it at a loss, like Voice of America or RT.
- AdmiralGinge 6y agoNobody really cares about Oracle and its corporate image outside of the software industry, a place where the vast majority of its members are outside of TikTok's target market. If they don't care about the links to an authoritarian one-party state with a questionable human rights record, they won't care about it being owned by Oracle.
- DebtDeflation 6y ago>Nobody really cares about Oracle and its corporate image outside of the software industry Quite a few non-tech corporations that use their products care. I consult for Fortune 2000 companies and "getting off Oracle" is probably a top 3 IT priority for most of them. That aside, I can't think of any logical reason why Oracle would even want to buy them. It would be like Google buying a dry cleaning chain. There's no synergy whatsoever.
- AdmiralGinge 6y agoOh fair, I always thought a distaste for Oracle was confined to tech.
- kbob 6y ago> beige and grey Windows Vista era software and shitty enterprise software That's not my image of Oracle at all. I think of a shark feeding frenzy.
- fakeslimshady 6y agoActually great idea. All this crazyness could go away in November.
- mindslight 6y agoA VPN wouldn't be necessary. Most of USG's totalitarian restrictions have been developed around commercial activity. Individuals are free to run whatever software we'd like, and talk with whatever servers we'd like. The user-facing choke point is Apple/Google control over software distribution.
- kube-system 6y agoNo VPN would be necessary. The US has not proposed censoring the TikTok application, nor does the US president have the authority to censor otherwise legal speech.