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With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’ (www.wired.com)
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[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Rumor has it that tiktok will be unplayable with accounts linked to an American SIM card

[–] Cycle0861@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Tiktok is going to be paradise without all the US problems in everybody else's internet. It's going to be the best social network ever

[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That is actually a really funny point I hadn't thought of.

[–] Cycle0861@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah. Think about it. If you're English speaker user, sooner or later you get bombarded qith content from the US and people's solutions for it are always the same : just don't use insert social media app that much until the elections are over. But the drama bever stops

[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

That... would be interesting. I wonder how they would implement that, and what else they decide is worth that restriction. Curious to see it play out

Edit: helpful info from Toms Hardware

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/online-security/what-will-happen-if-tiktok-is-banned

[–] viking@infosec.pub 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You can't open douyin (the Chinese Tiktok) with a non-Chinese SIM present. So implementing it on the software side would be trivial, if google was to enforce this change software-sided.

The block is trivial to bypass though, all you need to do is use wifi while disabling the SIM slot in your phone settings. My wife is Chinese, and I had to figure that out for her.

[–] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 3 points 20 hours ago

Any China market tablet can install douyin even without a SIM, most even come with it installed by default.