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> Tiktok now isn't available in Play Store, App Store, etc. as Apple and Google will comply very easily. How is that not an outright ban? Last step: the whole
by meiraleal 3y ago
> Tiktok now isn't available in Play Store, App Store, etc. as Apple and Google will comply very easily.
How is that not an outright ban?
Last step: the whole world will start to use the same framework and it is the death of Silicon Valley. That would be great for the world.
- __rito__ 3y agoMy original comment is a reply to the argument that you often hear- "in this day and age, you can't truly ban something". I say to that- "you don't really need to truly ban anything, you just have to make it hella inconvenient". Just eliminate the app from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Almost all the work is done. Just like that. You do some more, and you effectively shrink the user base by 99%+. That's all you need.
- bjourne 3y agoBecause Microsoft, Apple, and Google are free to host whatever software they want. So make them not want to host TikTok. They can just come up with some BS as to why they don't host TikTok. The BS doesn't even have to use the words "China" or "Chinese" as long as the BS can conceivably be argued to include TikTok but not Instagram and whatever else you have. Doesn't matter how stupid the BS would be ("Ah, we don't host social network apps that starts with the letter 'T' unless the next letter is 'w' so Twitter is ok but not TikTok") because it would be understood by all that it is BS.
- meiraleal 3y agoAs a Brazilian looking for the implications of this to my country, I don't care about technicalities. If TikTok isn't in the app and play store, it was banned.