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So it could work.. but.. what would stop another company from making another TikTok? Would you then have to ban that one too?

• diebeforei485 4y ago
  If it isn't a Chinese company (or Iranian, Syrian, North Korean, Cuban), the national security concern doesn't exist.
  • Overtonwindow 4y ago
    Interesting, so it would be determined that a social media app produced by one of those countries would be considered a national security threat, and for that reason, that is why it's blocked. That still seems largely unenforceable… TikTok is a very simple app, it could be recreated over a weekend. I don't want the Chinese to have my personal data anymore than the next person, but I also think it's a fools errand to try to play whack-a-mole with these kind of things. It will be very interesting to see how this plays out.
    • Jensson 4y ago
      > TikTok is a very simple app, it could be recreated over a weekend. No, TikTok depends on paid humans to rank videos, creating that culture to get good results isn't trivial at all.
    • diebeforei485 4y ago
      The key is - (1) Is this company controlled by a foreign government? (Yes, ByteDance does whatever the CCP tells them to do) (2) Is that government an adversary of the US, and has that government used US data against the US? (China has done this many times). TikTok cannot be recreated in a weekend, at least not at scale.