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intensely_human ,

They will disappear

xep ,

Same thing that happened to the Chinese creators on Youtube despite it being banned in China, I presume.

Anarki_ ,

They’ll move to TokTik by DanceByte by the week’s end.

Goodie ,

The same as what happened when vine shut down.

Take their follows as best as they can to another platform. Continue on.

cosmicrookie ,
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They will cease to exist

z00s ,

1000000378

HurlingDurling ,
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Nobody in Lemmy cares until they come for Lemmy I guess

EnderMB ,

I don’t know why Amazon hasn’t bought TikTok yet.

Lots of data, access to the Chinese market, a social media app under their wing, and an aligned work culture. Alongside the gains for ads, moving their shit to AWS, and retail gains, it seems like a better idea than throwing money into the AI fire.

cosmicrookie ,
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Because its not for sale

EnderMB ,

Everything is for sale when you are a $1T+ company. That’s why Amazon has the likes of Blink, Ring, Alexa, Anthropic, etc.

cosmicrookie , (edited )
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Not when there are national politics involved

EnderMB ,

That’s…exactly why you would get involved?

TikTok might lose out on revenue. Why not sell your US arm for lots of money?

This is literally one of the most widely talked-about options regarding the ban of TikTok…

___ ,

They refused to entertain offers. 1T dollars seems mighty, but TikTok is a multi-year if not multi-decade data collection hub. That data is on the youth of America and their trajectories.

That’s priceless to the power hungry. It’s not just money, it’s control.

eldavi ,

That’s priceless to the power hungry. It’s not just money, it’s control.

that’s why their banning it; they can’t control it in the way they want

nucleative ,

Wouldn’t be surprised if there was an exceptionally well funded US startup that makes a debut before TikTok is blocked if they don’t sell. TikTok has to weigh the possibility that they can’t compete if they don’t exist.

cosmicrookie ,
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I doubt it. USA is just one one country, although large. Tik Tok will do fine without it.

xilliah ,

They’ll live happily ever after in their TikTok houses.

p5yk0t1km1r4ge ,
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

interdimensionalmeme ,

Who cares. Imagine what will happen to those freed from this mental prison

gearheart ,

What usa tik tok creators?

card797 ,

I’m excited to find out!

SomeGuy69 ,

YouTube shorts are already a thing.

Reddfugee42 ,

Once they get an algorithm that isn’t absolute shit, bam we’ll be good

clot27 ,
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Switch to ig reels or yt shorts

orcrist ,

Nothing. The law is unconstitutional.

INHALE_VEGETABLES ,

How is the law unconstitutional?

No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston ,

Restrict first amendment rights.

Stovetop ,

The right for a business to operate is not protected by the first amendment, though.

I could use that argument to stop the government from closing/dismantling any physical space because I might use their walls to express my first amendment rights. But the argument just doesn’t hold up.

makeasnek , (edited )
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It’s not the right of the business, it’s the right of US citizens to consume media and information from any source they please. The Govt has no right to say “You can’t read that newspaper” or “You can’t listen to that speaker”, so they have no right to say “You can’t get information through this app”. The first amendment isn’t just about the right to speak, it’s also about the right to listen and research especially the stuff the government doesn’t want you to know about.

Cube6392 ,

I think the argument would be that if money is freedom of speech then so should surveillance capitalism

orcrist ,

I could try to summarize it, but if you just do a web search for EFF and TikTok, you will come across a good explanation.

Of course we don’t know how the courts will rule. My belief is that the odds are in favor of TikTok and of TikTok users, but we’ll have to wait and find out.

Crackhappy ,
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I imagine all the clocks in their houses will just stop. Stop tick. Stop tock.

Crackhappy ,
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Albeit I don’t know what the duck TikTok is. Just guessing.

user224 ,
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In case you’re serious, a video-centric social media. It focuses on short vertical videos. Naturally, they’re generally too short to have much useful information, so it’s mostly dumb addictive content, or straight up misinformation. It’s meant to feel like you’re not wasting time while you definitely are. “I am not spending 15 minutes to watch a normal video, I just watched a few (maybe 50) short (around 1 minute) videos.”

It’s like YouTube shorts.

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