162
Biden has signed a TikTok ban into law. Here’s what this really means (www.independent.co.uk)
submitted 2 months ago by thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net
116 comments fedilink hide all child comments

President Joe Biden has just signed the so-called TikTok ban into law, meaning that the popular social media app’s parent company must now sell the app or face a ban across the US,

The controversial ban of the app was passed by Congress this week, sending the measure to Mr Biden’s desk, who signed the legislation into law on Wednesday.

Despite fears that the Chinese-owned app will suddenly vanish from users’ phones, that is far from the reality of what will likely happen.

When does the ban go into effect?

At the earliest, it would probably take a year before TikTok would be banned.

Under the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, has nine months to sell the social media app, tacking on an additional three more if a sale is under way.

But if this doesn’t happen, TikTok will be banned from US app stores.

In reality, the app would be no longer accessible in the app stores in the US, meaning it would become more difficult to download the app or receive updates.

TikTok users could probably circumvent the app’s removal from US app stores and access the app through other means, like by using a virtual private network (VPN) or using a foreign SIM card.

“The TikTok bill relies heavily on the control that Apple and Google maintain over their smartphone platforms because the bill’s primary mechanism is to direct Apple and Google to stop allowing the TikTok app on their respective app stores,” Dean Ball, a research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, told The Associated Press.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 57 points 2 months ago

I love this protest sign:

As if the US Government gives a shit about Americans' quality of life.

[-] Des@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

while i don't give af about stolen valor and wish all the valor stolen: think they are just a fan of the battleship Pennsylvania specifically or battleships in general?

[-] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

Maybe she was in the navy.

[-] Des@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

yeah but that ship was retired in 1948

maybe she found the navy's stockpile of adrenochrome

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To be fair, the old US battleships were pretty cool.

[-] Des@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

always loved the Iowa class. love those long bois

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Iowa is pretty crappy looking to me, the hull proportions and armament looks out of place. New Mexico and Colorado are my favourites, especially before the modernisation, with lattice masts. Lattice masts ftw.

[-] Des@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

i think i just like the Iowa because i built a model when i was like 12

i also love those weird pre-dreadnoughts with all their tiny useless casemate guns because i built the Iron Duke around the same time

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago

I had models of Hood, Yamato, Lutzow and Potemkin (not in scale, Potemkin model was like 10 times bigger than Yamato lol) and i like all four too.

[-] Des@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

my grandfather put together a Hood for me but i have no idea what ever happened to it.

maybe it's tiny magazine exploded and it sunk with all hands

this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2024
162 points (100.0% liked)

news

23259 readers
1092 users here now

Welcome to c/news! Please read the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember... we're all comrades here.

Rules:

-- PLEASE KEEP POST TITLES INFORMATIVE --

-- Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed. --

-- All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. --

-- If you are citing a twitter post as news please include not just the twitter.com in your links but also nitter.net (or another Nitter instance). There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ or archive them as you would any other reactionary source using e.g. https://archive.today . Twitter screenshots still need to be sourced or they will be removed --

-- Mass tagging comm moderators across multiple posts like a broken markov chain bot will result in a comm ban--

-- Repeated consecutive posting of reactionary sources, fake news, misleading / outdated news, false alarms over ghoul deaths, and/or shitposts will result in a comm ban.--

-- Neglecting to use content warnings or NSFW when dealing with disturbing content will be removed until in compliance. Users who are consecutively reported due to failing to use content warnings or NSFW tags when commenting on or posting disturbing content will result in the user being banned. --

-- Using April 1st as an excuse to post fake headlines, like the resurrection of Kissinger while he is still fortunately dead, will result in the poster being thrown in the gamer gulag and be sentenced to play and beat trashy mobile games like 'Raid: Shadow Legends' in order to be rehabilitated back into general society. --

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
FidelCastro@hexbear.net
Alaskaball@hexbear.net
SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net
ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net
carpoftruth@hexbear.net
GinAndJuche@hexbear.net
Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net