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Meta dominates the display ad market though, that is all they care about. Once TikTok is banned in America, they can grow it further.
by rchaud 4y ago
Meta dominates the display ad market though, that is all they care about. Once TikTok is banned in America, they can grow it further.
- deelowe 4y agoTikTok isn't getting banned, don't be silly.
- jq-r 4y agoIs it silly? It's already being banned from US and European government devices. It is just one more sentence away from being banned for general population in those huge regions.
- CameronNemo 4y agoThere is big chasm between banning an app from fleet devices and banning both an app and a website in an entire country. Especially one that is so enormously popular.
- Hoyadonis 4y agoI cannot recall the last time I've seen such a bipartisan push for something so monumental. Just within the past week, Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Mark Warner (D-VA) have been saying virtually the same thing: TikTok is an unprecedented national security threat.
- skrtskrt 4y agothey're literally just forcing them to build datacenters to keep the data for Americans in America (and Indians in India, etc). TikTok is already publicly hiring a ton of people for this Once the data doesn't leave America this is going to go away. This is not that much different than just complying with the type of regulations the EU has. The American version is just involving a lot more chest pounding and fluff because there's no existing laws to enforce to make them do this. So they just have to do it through threats and relatively minor policy changes (like banning on government phones).
- hnaccount141 4y agoI'm honestly more surprised that any social media apps were ever allowed on government devices.
- deelowe 4y agoYes it is. The government is just trying to get the data to stay within the US. TikTok only needs facilities here (and maybe some sort of air gap) to comply.
- seanmcdirmid 4y agoWere US and European government officials/workers really big TikTok'ers to begin with?
- jatins 4y agoTikTok got banned in India. I don't see why it can't get banned in US given CCP's complete control over Chinese companies
- dvngnt_ 4y agoIndia regularly bans sites. just last month https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1156726845/indian-tax-authorities-raid-bbc-weeks-after-it-airs-documentary-critical-of-modi https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1156726845/indian-tax-authori... USA is different
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- esskay 4y agoTikTok's highly unlikely to get banned, and if it was then 10 new replacements would pop up overnight. Facebook isn't anything like TikTok and likely never could be. Instagram might get close but even then its not the same thing. Also the display ad market is only useful if you've got people to advertise to. The more Facebook continues to turn into 'social networking for boomers' the less and less they'll make.
- disgruntledphd2 4y agoThey have 2.9bn monthly active users. Like, I left FB five years ago (after staying there for 5 years), and literally HN has been telling me that FB were doomed for all of that time. I totally agree that TikTok is a very strong competitor, unlike what they've seen before, but writing FB off right now is probably not the wisest long-term decision.
- tenebrisalietum 4y agoHow many in the US, and how many with desirable advertiser demographics. Selling reverse mortgage and pharmaceutical ads to boomer audiences turns you into television, where--at some point--the audience is going to pass on and leave it behind.
- r00fus 4y agoA bit hyperbolic to say HN groupthink => "FB doomed". More like FB is over valued and their product has stagnated and alienated their user base.
- disgruntledphd2 4y agoFacebook acquires IG (over ten years ago now), HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840
- rejectfinite 4y ago>and if it was then 10 new replacements would pop up overnight https://www.youtube.com/shorts https://www.youtube.com/shorts already here and not a chinese company if Im gonna brainrot Ill use youtube