cm0002@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoTikTok is offline in the U.S. after Supreme Court upholds banwww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square242fedilinkarrow-up1654arrow-down118file-text
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minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up102arrow-down4·4 days agoNo one is enforcing it, it’s a play by TikTok. TikTok did it voluntarily. The server is still there, my wife logged in and saw the notice. It’s just theater.
minus-squarevala@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-23 days ago$10 says Trump influenced TikTok to go dark today to make him look better when it turns it back on tomorrow. We all know they didn’t actually have to do this.
minus-squarecyd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·4 days agoTikTok and its service providers are liable. “No one is enforcing” is meaningless, because they can still be prosecuted retrospectively if the US Government changes its mind.
minus-squareCorkyskog@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoYup. They even asked for clarification on the “no enforcement” and the Biden administration basically just said “it is what it is”. What big company is going to take a risk like that?
minus-squareUlrich@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 days agoWhat are they risking, exactly? The entire company has essentially been banned from the country, so they have nothing to lose.
minus-squareCorkyskog@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoBeing fined for not doing what the people in power what them to.
minus-squareUlrich@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoHmmm existing with fines vs. not existing. Quite a dilemma.
minus-squareslumberlust@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoWhat big company is going to risk a fine tomorrow for profit today? Literally all of them?
No one is enforcing it, it’s a play by TikTok. TikTok did it voluntarily. The server is still there, my wife logged in and saw the notice.
It’s just theater.
$10 says Trump influenced TikTok to go dark today to make him look better when it turns it back on tomorrow.
We all know they didn’t actually have to do this.
TikTok and its service providers are liable. “No one is enforcing” is meaningless, because they can still be prosecuted retrospectively if the US Government changes its mind.
Yup. They even asked for clarification on the “no enforcement” and the Biden administration basically just said “it is what it is”.
What big company is going to take a risk like that?
What are they risking, exactly? The entire company has essentially been banned from the country, so they have nothing to lose.
Being fined for not doing what the people in power what them to.
Hmmm existing with fines vs. not existing. Quite a dilemma.
What big company is going to risk a fine tomorrow for profit today? Literally all of them?