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I think they meant the US domain tiktok.com is banned. TikTok itself is not banned in CN, and its web presence there is likely available at the respective CN do
by seattle_spring 2y ago
I think they meant the US domain tiktok.com is banned. TikTok itself is not banned in CN, and its web presence there is likely available at the respective CN domain. I’m guessing it’s tiktok.cn, but I’m not checking so I take no responsibility if it’s a phishing domain.
- United857 2y agoThe Chinese equivalent is DouYin, douyin.com
- jMyles 2y agoYeah, I think you're correct. ...but seriously: The Chinese state pretends that Wikipedia is banned in China. Does anybody seriously think that Chinese people don't use Wikipedia, like every day? Routing around a ban of this nature is so utterly trivial, and the primary audience of TikTok is strongly integrative of demographics which are digital natives accustomed to subverting such bans (heck, they got almost universal training in this area by having to jailbreak their school-issued tablets).
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- insane_dreamer 2y ago> Does anybody seriously think that Chinese people don't use Wikipedia, like every day? surprised as you may be, the vast majority certainly do not use Wikipedia
- throw-the-towel 2y agoBaidu, the local Internet giant, has its own encyclopedia. You'd be surprised how different some countries are in their Internet usage. Russians don't really use Facebook, and Google faced an uphill battle to be accepted there. Czechs apparently prefer homegrown map services (such as Seznam) to Google Maps.
- TeaBrain 2y agoDouyin as someone else mentioned is the Chinese equivalent to TikTok and it has completely separate content. The international TikTok content (not US specific) is not available in China.
- jMyles 2y ago> The international TikTok content (not US specific) is not available in China. These comments are very confusing to me. Why is half this thread pretending that the Great Firewall is effective? Do y'all not have friends in China? Contacts who visit? Do they suddenly drop off the face of the earth? Of course not, they install a VPN and carry on, and communicate with you via all the normal media. The Great Firewall is really just a means of forcing people not to acknowledge what they know, and to only publicly speak about the censored version of history and politics. But it's no more effective than any other internet censorship (which is to say, it is trivially bypassed).
- TeaBrain 2y agoI never said the content would be impossible to access given the use of a VPN. The comment I responded to implied that they thought TikTok would be available simply by using a Chinese domain name. Granted, Douyin does have a Chinese domain name, but it does not have the content on TikTok.
- insane_dreamer 2y ago> Why is half this thread pretending that the Great Firewall is effective? It's extremely effective. Just because a very small fraction of the population 1) know how to use a VPN, 2) are willing to pay for it, and 3) bother to use it, doesn't mean the GFW is ineffective. The CCP doesn't need 99.99% efficiency rate, 95% is plenty to control their population. Source: myself, many years living in China.
- jMyles 2y agoI've never lived in China. But you're saying that 95% of people refrain from reading resources that are not served by The Great Firewall? That seems like a huge, huge stretch. I've never met a Chinese person whom, when the topic came up, hadn't read about, for example, tiananmen square, in a method contrary to the wishes of the CCP.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoTiktok is indeed banned in China. Douyin is owned by the same company but not the same platform. It is subject to Chinese gov censorship (like all media in China), while Tiktok is not (therefore banned).