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Summary The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act called for action against TikTok and their parent company ByteDance. If this bill passes it means that ByteDance will be forced to let go of their beloved TikTok or just remove themselves from the US market. Quotes My thoughts I will not be sad if TikTok is removed from the US. I am not sure what specifically the CCP are doing with the data they are presumably taking from the US. Honestly though tiktok is one of the most toxic platforms there is but I think that there is not any better alternative. But at least china won't have my data anymore? ***Update*** The Bill has passed through the house even though there are concerns about it being unconstitutional. You can read more about it here: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/bill-that-could-ban-tiktok-passes-in-house-despite-constitutional-concerns/ Source https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/house-committee-votes-50-0-to-force-tiktok-to-divest-from-chinese-owner/

Why is TikTok CEO Shou Chew claiming they have never provided data to the Chinese government when just a couple of months ago Linus screamed- -when they talked about that ByteDance has handed over data to the CCP? Or rather: why are Ted Cruz asking him this when it already public knowledge that they do? I'm not following this super closely so sorry if I've missed something and am being stupid here.

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I just noticed that Google seems to have removed a lot of TikTok links from its search results. In the screenshots that I've attached, when Googling "tiktok" no direct link to the main website (www.tiktok.com) comes up, and in the other when searching "khaby lame" none of the results link to his TikTok profile or any of his TikToks. I'm curious if it's just me or if others are seeing this odd behavior as well?

A lot of people are talking about this on TikTok, and I wanted a different perspective to be shared to me maybe they are right but people are saying it’s coming in 2023 or in a few years or a decade. i’m just not seeing any consistencies, and want a straight answer, and not have 20 different answers,

Summary There is a lot of information out about a law just proposed which is nominally meant to ban Tik Tok but does not name Tik Tok specifically. The Restrict Act would ban anyone from accessing a online service ran by a US adverssary. This law is so sweeping it even mentions things like "Post Quantum Cryptography" and "Synthetic Biology" Some readings of it could imply that acceing such a service via a VPN would be against this law. However, this act is not intended to go after Joe user trying to find dance or cat videos but is intended to stop such services from bypassing the Restrict act. That said the law does have some concerning provisions, applies far beyond social media and specifies things like games and forums, and does contain both civli and federal criminal penalties. Though it only applies to such things that have over 1 million users over the course of a year. The act specifies that the app would have to in the judgement of the President and certain cabinet secretaries be operated by or from and adversary of the United states and have been: Used for sabotage, "catastrophic effects on the security or resilience of the critical infrastructure or digital economy of the United States" (hacking), " interfering in, or altering the result or reported result of a Federal election" , "coercive or criminal activities by a foreign adversary that are designed to undermine democratic processes", "otherwise poses an undue or unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or the safety of United States persons" . Note this law has bipartisan support. Quotes Part of the text of the Bill Per newsweek. My thoughts The first thing to note is that this is not the same law as was discussed in this thread. This thread discussed a state law in Utah, and similar more draconian state laws in other states and another fedearl proposal regarding age limits on social media no matter where it was located. Some of these proposals do not specify what counts as "social media" i.e. Obviously Twitter and Facebook...but what about say Discord or the chat functions built into online games? This law is about outright total banning of large online services from outside the US and from countires that are deemed to be adverssaries by the government, specifically by the executive branch. Which in the US means it's only elected member, the president by way of the cabinet. Some are concerned with vesting so much power over our digital lives in one man in a law so broad and so sweeping it even covers QUOTE information and communications technology products and services integral to— (A) artificial intelligence and machine learning; (B) quantum key distribution; (C) quantum communications; (D) quantum computing; (E) post-quantum cryptography; (lol) (F) autonomous systems; (G) advanced robotics; (H) biotechnology; (I) synthetic biology; (LMAO) (J) computational biology; and (K) e-commerce technology and services, including any electronic techniques for accomplishing business transactions, online retail, internet-enabled logistics, internet-enabled payment technology, and online marketplaces. UNQUOTE (lols and LMAOS added by me) Are they trying to pass a law that would apply to Data from Star Trek or something? Is this a law for the United States or a Federation Star Fleet regulation? This law seeks to be so tech and future forward that it would apply when we have freaking warp drive. As ridiculous as it sounds this regulation which is about FAR more than Tik Tok looks like it will be enacted and singed into law as it has a lot of support. In short if you care about technology you will want to read this bill. This taken with laws seeking to restrict all social media by age will make web 3.0 a far different experience than web 2.0 has been. This Rossman video is so important it should be part of the original post. Sources https://www.dailydot.com/debug/restrict-act-tiktok-jail-time-vpn/ Does TikTok Ban Allow for 20 Year Prison Sentence? (newsweek.com) Text - S.686 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): RESTRICT Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress White House ‘very in favor’ of bill thought to target TikTok | US news | The Guardian

I've tried tascam but it's not compatible with android, only ios. So far I've seen that blue yeti X is a popular mic on tiktok live for ASMR. I have the 3dio but still have not found a way to livestream with that to tiktok and get stereo sound. I have no idea how others are achieving that. Maybe they are able to stream from PC but I don't have that feature available on my account. Is there any other mic that might be better than the blue yeti X for livestreaming ASMR on an android phone?

Hello guys, i need block tiktok app form my internet i try opendns and the app still working

Do you know any tiktok users who came from Philippines? If so, Do you know Vishnu Isles or anyone? (Well he's my favorite tiktok user)

TikTok has officially been banned in USA Summary TikTok has been banned in US, along with other chinese apps such as WeChat. Ban is getting effective and 12th November (for WeChat) and 20th September (for TikTok) Image source: Wikimedia Commons Quotes My thoughts Every app steals data, including TikTok. TikTok and Wechat have been banned mostly because of political opinions. Sources https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53660860 , https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/business/trump-tik-tok-wechat-ban.html

Summary In the past few days, Twitter has had preliminary talks with ByteDance about buying their social media platform TikTok. Until now, the only other company looking to buy was Microsoft. The deal may only be for TikTok's business in North America and not internationally. The biggest issue for Twitter is their lack of funds. With TikTok being worth an estimated 15-50 Billion and Twitter being worth 29 Billion, Twitter would likely need additional investors in order to get the money needed to purchase the platform. However, their smaller size is also a benefit over Microsoft. Because they are a significantly smaller company, they would not have to go through anywhere near as many antitrust investigations as Microsoft would in order to purchase TikTok. On the other hand, TikTok has threatened legal action against Trump's executive order which is responsible for their ban. It is believed the lawsuit will be made as early as Tuesday and if successful, could mean that TikTok will stay and wont be sold to any other company. Quotes My thoughts I have a feeling that TikTok's lawsuit will be successful and they wont end up being banned from the US. But if one of these two companies does buy TikTok, I believe it will be Microsoft because they have easy access to the money needed while Twitter does not. Sources Wall Street Journal Digital Trends Tech Crunch CNET The Verge

Summary Oracle is trying to buy tiktok. we already know microsoft and twitter are also in talks for acquisition from bytedance. now of course bytedance hasn't even offered a price for sell, or even if they will sell in first place. Quotes My thoughts ok i know its a little too late, it was on techlinked, but couldn't find any forum page on it , so let's talk about this. The only reason Trump is siding with Oracle is, Larry Ellison (founder of Oracle, now CTO) has helped his campaign; alot. Of all companies on earth, none of them are as ruthless and scummy as oracle. Remember this is the same company that is still continuing the lawsuit against google for java api names 10+ years after and how google is violating a copyright. this is also the same company that charges for jvm per machine. they left mysql to die, for people to pay for oracle db. do i even need to mention solaris. what about countless of tech they buy just to kill it so they dont have a competitor. i digress. I cant even imagine what kind of ruthless plans would oracle have for tiktok. lets hope microsoft acquires it. Sources https://mobilesyrup.com/2020/08/18/oracle-reportedly-in-talks-to-acquire-tiktoks-u-s-operations/ https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53830533 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/opinion/tiktok-wechat-ban-trump.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_v._Oracle_America

Developing story Summary (Whole article:) The wording of the EO is a bit vague. Video game companies owned by Tencent are NOT affected by this Executive Order. My thoughts This looks like a very complicated situation, for both sides. Banning any transaction with WeChat or Tiktok is going to have a lot of influence on US companies. I really don't have an opinion on this yet. Sources https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/technology/trump-wechat-tiktok-china.html https://twitter.com/SamAugustDean/status/1291576813685108736 https://kotaku.com/president-trump-now-targeting-tencent-who-own-riot-gam-1844642636 (more sources will be added soon)

Summary Twitter is testing on a new TikTok-like format for its ‘Explore’ discovery tab for select users globally, including India. The new UI is being tested on select users who use the latest version of Android or iOS. In this test, users will be able to swipe up and see videos, images and even text-based tweets in a vertical format, just like you now see in TikTok or Instagram Reels. Also, Twitter is testing a one-time warning feature that will let users flag their posts with labels like Nudity, Violence, or Sensitive. Previously users can only mark based on a single label - sensitive. Quotes My thoughts Wow didnt see that coming! Now even twitter is moving towards 'Short Form Video Content' which is popular with the Gen Z. Not sure if its the right move given how their equivalent of 'status' - Twitter fleets failed badly. The other feature being tested , the one-time warning feature is a step in the right direction. Sources Add links to the news sites that you used to write this post XDA Forum - https://www.xda-developers.com/twitter-tests-new-explore-tab/ Official Twitter India handle -

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYNUxdVD/ Recently I was scrolling through TikTok and found there's out of context Wan Show clip about LTT share splt between Linus and Yvonne. some of these comments are actually Cancer. Also, also this is my first post on the forums!