r/technology • u/HellYeahDamnWrite • Jan 15 '25

Social Media TikTok Plans Immediate US Shutdown on Sunday

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tiktok-plans-immediate-us-shutdown-153524617.html
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u/Sirlacker Jan 15 '25

Aren't a ton of people going to Red Note to specifically because it's actually owned by the CCP to spite this whole fiasco?

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u/DadJokeBadJoke Jan 15 '25

If it gets traction, they'll just give it the TikTok treatment

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u/Sirlacker Jan 15 '25

What treatment? Empty threats? They weren't going to ban it and in fact not only in a surprise reversal that TikTok is banning the US, the people of the US are now going to willingly give the CCP as much info as they can get their hands on just to show the US Government how fucking ridiculous this whole thing is.

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u/smeeeeeef Jan 15 '25

The kicker is that it was never about the data, it was about alphabet and meta's lost ad revenue, with a healthy side of "controlling narratives" under guise of "protecting free speech."